Change is already afoot in some offices,especially when it comes to desk designs." That's one the strategies that many companies are using now. They may have got five standing desks for their employees or a treadmill desk. i've heard of other companies where they may not have a desk for every person.But they'll have a bank of these desks where people can go for an hour a day and their emails or talk on the phone," Katzmarzyk said. Katzmarzyk says simply studying this problem has inspired his team to make a few changes in their own lives. "As a university protessor,you knon,it is a very sedentary occupation. We're chained to a desk in terms of writing papers and doing research. We really try to limit the amount of time we spend doing that,