What Office Furniture Can Learn From ZipCar

A transportation revolution is underway, and you might have noticed the changes. The number of choices for how we get from one place to another is rising. In cities across the country, transportation choices now include driving a car, biking, taking a bus, using a shared car service, calling an Uber car, using the subway, and renting a shared […]

Benefits of Using a Treadmill Desk According to Rebel Desk Customers

Many studies have discussed the benefits of using a treadmill desk, and we’ve referenced lots of them in our blog and website. But reading the results of a study is never the same as hearing from people directly. We regularly follow up with customers to see what they love about their treadmill desk. In honor […]

Are Treadmill Desks a Sad Commentary on the Times?

This post was originally published by Kathleen Hale (Rebel Desk CEO) on LinkedIn. You can view the original post here. When I talk to people about working at a treadmill desk, I occasionally get a response like this: “Exercising while you work? Are we that busy? What has the world come to!” Is the treadmill […]

Creating An Office That Inspires

We spend eight or more hours a day in our office space. Our office becomes a second home to us, and it’s important to feel comfortable and enjoy the time you spend there. Offices come in different shapes and sizes, but all could be customized to give you a place that you love spending time in, […]

Living “One Chair to Another”

A study examining the amount of time spent exercising recently published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings shocked even the researchers. After tracking 2,600 people for two years, the researchers found the following: Men and women of normal weight exercised vigorously (defined as fat-burning activity like jogging) for a mere two minutes per day. Women who are considered […]

February is Heart Health Month! Help Your Heart by Being Active at Work!

The American Heart Association spends every day teaching others about risk factors for heart disease, warning signs of an unhealthy heart, and lifestyle changes to keep your heart strong. These lessons go into overdrive during February’s Heart Health Month. Those “Go Red” promotions have had a huge impact drawing attention to a number one killer […]

How Inactivity Can Change Your Brain

After watching the latest episode of a reality television show, you’ve probably joked: “I might have lost a few brain cells watching this.” Well, the truth of it is that, yes, maybe you did. But the risk of losing a few brain cells is not because of the content you spent a couple hours taking in on […]

Why Walking At Work Is Becoming A Norm

Ask most treadmill desk users: would you go back to sitting for 8 hours a day? Almost certainly they will say, no way. Never. But what made these folks convert to a treadmill desk, and why are businesses adopting this new way to work? If you’ve made a New Year’s resolution to commit to being […]

Can You Type While Walking at a Treadmill Desk?

One of the most common questions that we get at Rebel Desk is: can I really type while I’m walking on a treadmill? We assure folks that, yes, typing is not a problem while walking slowly at a treadmill desk. But now we can let other people do the assuring . . . This weekend […]

The Treadmill Desk: A Brief History

Treadmill desks have become the hottest employee perk at such varied employers as Dairy Queen, Wal-Mart, and the White House. Your inner historian might be wondering, where did these treadmill desks that everyone is talking about come from? It All Started With Double-Decker Buses To answer that question, we need to go way back, further […]