ITOKI CORPORATION (Head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President: Yoshiro Hirai) will begin linking its electric height-adjustable desk, "toiro," with the "Workcise App.", an app that measures office activities such as "standing," "walking," and "sitting" simply by carrying it around, from Tuesday, February 4, 2020.

In recent years, it has become clear that sitting and working for long hours not only reduces productivity and creativity, but also has a negative impact on health (according to our research). For this reason, companies that are reforming work styles and promoting health management are increasingly installing elevating desks to prevent excessive sitting. However, in many cases, even if an up-and-down elevating desk is introduced, the height is not actually changed without changing the sitting position, and the issue has been how to promote behavioral change in workers the users.

Itoki has updated the "Workcise App." to encourage more effective use of the "toiro," including a new industry-first function that notifies people who sit too long by slightly elevating the table by approximately 1 cm, based on activity measured with a smartphone, as an opportunity to promote behavioral change in workers people who sit too much. The "Workcise App." has been updated to enable more effective use of "toiro. In addition to preventing excessive sitting, we have also added a timer setting for meeting time management and a one-shot adjustment to the optimal height for each person's physique.