研究顯示 使用站立式辦公桌會讓員工效率更高
Standing desks. Love 'em or hate 'em, there are plenty of articles to back up whatever opinion you have.
站立式辦公桌，不管你喜歡它還是討厭它，總有很多說法支持你的觀點。On the one hand, studies have shown that standing desks could help reduce your risk of obesity and diabetes. On the other, experts have said standing desks don't help with weight loss and could give you back problems.
一方面，一些研究表明，站立式辦公桌能夠幫你降低肥胖和糖尿病風險。另一方面，專家認爲站立式辦公桌不會幫助減肥，反而會造成背部問題。Now, another study has come out, this one in favor of standing desks. Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center found that standing desks helped employees get more done during the day. Though the results might not translate for all types of work environments, they should give standing desk proponents reason to rejoice.
現在，另一項調查結果又力挺了站立式辦公桌。德克薩斯州健康科學中心研究員發現，站立式辦公桌能幫助員工提高工作效率。儘管這一說法不能適用於所有類型的工作環境，但這一調查結果足以使站立式辦公桌的擁護者歡喜雀躍。
Published last week in the journal IIE Transactions, the study followed 167 employees in a call center over six months. Seventy-four of them used standing desks, and researchers found that they were 46 percent more productive than those who sat at their desks.
上週發表在《國際工業工程會刊》上的一則調查研究了一個呼叫中心的167名工作人員的六個月工作情況。其中，74名員工使用站立式辦公桌，他們的效率比使用坐式辦公桌的員工要高46%。The participants' employer, a health services company that's not named in the paper, commissioned the study to better understand the returns on the standing desks it had bought for the office.
這些參與者的僱主、一家健康服務公司老闆表示，這項調查使他們瞭解到了站立式辦公桌給他們帶來的益處。Employees typically made between 400 and 500 calls a month, and the company wanted them to average around two successful calls each hour. Those who had standing desks met that quota, while those who remained seated averaged 1.5 successful calls per hour, Gregory Garrett, a public health doctoral student and lead author on the study, told The Huffington Post. If an advisor was unable to reach a client over the phone, that was counted as an unsuccessful call.
這項調查的帶頭人、大衆健康博士格雷戈瑞·加勒特接受《赫芬頓郵報》採訪時表示，員工一般會在一個月內撥打400到500個電話，公司希望他們平均每小時完成兩次成功通話。調查發現，使用立式辦公桌的員工能夠完成這個目標，而使用坐式辦公桌的員工每個小時平均只能完成1.5次成功通話。如果健康諮詢顧問通話電話不能成功拉到客戶，那這次通話就是不成功的。The results almost seem too good to be true — after all, who wouldn't want a nearly 50 percent boost in productivity just from using a standing desk?
這項調查的結果真是讓人難以置信，畢竟，誰不想要只是通過站立式辦公桌就能將工作效率提高一半呢？
