Artwork, judiciously placed, can motivate employees to get a bit more exercise just by using the staircase in your building.
That's what researchers Theadora Swenson and Dr. Michael Siegel, with the Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health in Boston, found when they investigated ways to encourage office workers in three-story buildings to use the stairs rather than the elevators.
The researchers selected what they termed "an interactive environmental intervention on stair usage" to see if art could get folks to bypass the elevators.
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