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Sedentary and Intellectual Employment Risks

08/03/2019

Sedentary and Intellectual Employment

Introduction

Workplaces all around the world are adopting sedentary working lifestyles. Healthcare

management occupation is one. These intellectual jobs require sedentary work. It can possibly be

viewed as a reward for required capabilities. There's pros and cons in intellectual and sedentary

employment. Here we'll mention a few. Healthcare management jobs are becoming only

available to those considered as intellectual. With the employee's intellectuality they're required

to call the shots, and do more sedentary labor than physical. Desk jobs, and office jobs fit the

description. Since they're already in the know they will create and manage plans to make sure a

job is carried out correctly. This is probably more elementary to them than it would be to

someone putting in physical labor, and vice versa. There's someone fit for everything.

If done right it can be the rise in a healthcare setting through quality and quantity. If it fails it can

be a catastrophic domino effect on the company and the employees. The con comes in when

those that hold intellectual and sedentary employment, have rarely, if ever, been on the outside of

the chair or office. It is easy to tell someone what to do. Can the person giving orders also carry

them out? Intellectual employment saves a lot of physical thinking and acting in humans. It

increases room for errors and road blocks. We should enforce physical labor being a requirement

to avoid harming our body and altering the employer's health.

The Sedentary Lifestyle Problem

It is very important for hospitals, or any healthcare setting to inform the employee of the

risks associated with their job description. Sedentary employment offers the benefit of not

standing over 6 hours out of an eight-hour work day. They are also permitted to only lift so many

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pounds. To most people this may sound enticing, it sounds like just the job that they’ll choose to

retire with. The disclaimer is that this is not compatible with the human body, interferes with

proper communication in the workplace, and can possibly lead up to lawsuits against the

company. Furthermore, sedentary employment does everything, but promote and contribute to a

healthy lifestyle. It isn’t “America friendly” because it also contributes to weight gain. For the

healthcare company it promotes faster service with the intelligence of technology, and outwit

competitors with being able to perform additional testing. These gadgets can handicap the mind

from doing what has been embedded in Western culture for survival, cognitively and critically

thinking. “Developing our abilities to think more clearly, richly, fully—individually and

collectively— is absolutely crucial to solving world problems.” Adrian West (2009). Intelligence

is put in place to resolve and reduce errors in healthcare settings. The problem is that Employers

become too dependent upon this. If you lose these muscles, you’ll lose them. This is where

intelligent employment becomes a risk.

Research on The Impact of Sedentary and Employment

The human body has a neutral posture. When switching positions there are certain ways

to pose to not distort the bones and muscles in the body (Dr. Barlow). Desk jobs most likely

require typing, and a lot of work regarding the hand. Over the years of usage, the joints and

bones in the hands and wrist are at risk for arthritis or gout. According to research in the article

‘The Amount of Time Spent in Sedentary Behavior in the United States’ it is stated that …"with

the evolution of the technology age, sedentary time is reported to be increasing...”. It needs to be

monitored along with the same importance of monitoring quality and quantity in competency of

an employee. It is understood that some people require and are restricted to this type of

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employment because of disabilities. Intellectual employment is almost inevitable to come across,

because, of course, technology is taking over today. Employers are benefiting from switching to

a more intellectual form of work by not needing as many laborers, and also communication is

made easy for the company, and can contribute in a way to save on costs and time. Today you

can communicate with a subordinate or coworker every day and may have not used much energy

to ever see them face to face. With this being the new form of running a company you’re now

able to have a sedentary lifestyle at work and outside of work.

Solutions to Intellectual and Sedentary Employment Risks

Some solutions to not letting the advantage of the sedentary lifestyle from the intelligence

of technology that’s running a healthcare setting is to try to manually perform as many activities

as possible that the occupation allows. While doing so the employers can add cardio by walking

to one another to communicate instead of emailing, and texting to communicate. Also, before

running to online manuals and instructions in the healthcare company's intranet we can manually

break the problem down in smaller pieces. It’ll also help if we reach out to receive feedback from

a coworker within that department who shares expertise on the situation. We can question every

thought that arises and action plan, because this can cause errors from primary reliance upon

computers. Our thinking can also cause errors so avoiding limitations on sources available could

increase solutions and also create better and creative quality. Intellectual and Sedentary

Employment

The Importance of Hospital Employees Reporting These Errors

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It is important for hospitals to report these errors because some people are at risk by

simply not being clearly informed on what they’ve signed up for. There are lawyers being paid,

and doctors writing out notes to limit employers to only assign some employees to sedentary

work. Hospitals have put into place special codes for when the system is down. When this

happens hopefully, it is rare, the departments are affected when employees who primarily rely on

technology can’t function to perform their jobs without it. To avoid this all healthcare settings

should practice manually running their department as much as fire drills are practiced. Areas like

the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations are prompted to come out to

prevent these problems are reoccurring. If it is a recurring problem the department can be shut

down.

Supportive Ideas on Sedentary Employment in Healthcare

In this situation, we all are well aware of the situation that quitting the job isn’t our top

option for the majority. Supportive Care Matters suggest conducting stand up meetings,

scheduling lunch hour exercise, and changing seating arrangements throughout the day. There’s

needs to be a balance in work and a healthy lifestyle. Life outside of work is just as important as

maintaining the job well. Healthcare settings should enforce health in employees as well as

patients.

Conclusion

Lastly, it is important for healthcare settings to turn to intellectual and sedentary employment

because in most cases errors are reduced, competence is increased, and costs are decreased. It has

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to be acknowledged as a health risk as well as a benefit to healthcare employment. We can

promote these type of workplace lifestyles while being mindful of one's health.

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