Working from home can bring big health benefits, study finds

Re:Working from home can bring big health benefits, study finds by knightoffaith on Monday February 19, 2024 @11:09AM (#39431338)

>One of the studies reviewed found that 46.9% of employees working from home had gained weight, and another put the figure at 41%. Most of the papers reviewed showed that homeworkers were more sedentary.

This is an important caveat.

And the decrease in blood pressure is apparently just referring to blood pressure taken at a company office vs. blood pressure taken at home.

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Re:Working from home can bring big health benefits, study finds by sokoloff on Monday February 19, 2024 @11:14AM (#39431404)

What's the base rate for the comparable population? That sounds bad on a first read, but:

If only 47% (or 41%) of surveyed gained weight, that's probably lower than the population-wide average.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106499/#:~:tex.... (results from a 10-year study show a higher rate of weight gain)

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