More than 40 percent of respondents are actually sat at their desks for around seven or eight hours per day, according to findings from a silicon.com (a ZDNet Australia sister site) poll. Almost a quarter (23 percent) spend nine or 10 hours at their desks, while 10 percent sit down for more than 10 hours each day.
Last week British thrombosis charity Lifeblood warned that IT is a high-risk occupation for health problems relating to inactivity.
At the other end of the sedentary scale, four percent of respondents said they spend less than four hours each day sitting at their desks.
Increasingly workers are taking fewer breaks during the day. Fewer staff now take lunch breaks and many only leave their desk to go to the toilet. Separate research released last year found that 50 percent of staff in Europe only get up to go to the toilet and grab some food.
The software developers who sit for 8 hrs. will not have health problem if they are willing to spend atleast 1 hr to practice Yoag and meditation daily morning. I used to have such problems, but as I am practicing Yoga, I feel fresh every days. Practicing Yoga should become out habit like brushing our teeth in the morning.
Now I am starting a company called "Addis InfoTech' where I will train my students software programming along with a Yoga session on Sundays. They will be adviced to practice what I teach on Sundays.
I am practicing 'Kumbhak Pranayam'. Yoga changes our way of life. We feel light and energetic through out the day.
Any one interested may contact me for more information. We all can join together to form an International Software Yoga Organisation to encourage software professionals in practicing Yoga.