Sense

The UK’s first Smart Chair

30%

Of UK adults sedentary 6+ hours a day

11.6%

Of all deaths associated with sedentary behaviour

£700 million

Yearly cost to the NHS

Why we should sit less

There is increasing evidence that, unless you are a wheelchair user, sitting down too much can be a risk to your health

Are you sitting too much?

Most of us could benefit from spending less time sitting down, and that applies even if you’re keeping active.

Sitting down linked to 70,00 deaths per year in the UK

And ill health associated with sedentary behaviour costs the NHS at least £0.7bn per year

Sitting

Sense contains 32 smart sensors to encourage a neutral posture and will send alerts and recommendations should you adopt a poor posture (its your very own posture coach!) just remember "your best posture is your next posture".

Standing

Sense has an integrated Pomodoro Technique inspired timer which starts once you sit in the chair. Sense will then remind you to stand up after a set period of time, this can be adjusted to your preference (we recommend around 20 mins of sitting and 8 mins of standing every half an hour).

Moving

Movement is medicine, it is the biggest contributor to improving your overall health and wellbeing. That’s why Sense contains a library of desk based stretches and a step counter, we recommend around 2 minutes of moving every 30 minutes... That’s not all, fancy a little bit of friendly competition in the office? Have fun and improve your health with a selection of Sense based games..

Increase productivity

Improve morale

Improve health and wellbeing

Reduce absenteeism

Contact Us

We are currently inviting enquiries from Beta testers, investors and distribution partners.

Did you know...

In 2015 an international group of experts provided guidelines to employers to promote the avoidance on prolonged periods of sedentary work. They highlighted:

"how a less sedentary office environment potentially influences productivity, both intrinsically for the individual worker and extrinsically for the corporate achievements of an organisation, including economic savings and benefits from improved productivity, profitability, and reduced sickness and absenteeism."

The guidelines can be viewed in full here.

The recommendations included:

2 hours of standing and light activity, eventually progressing to a total of 4 hours.
Seated-based work should be regularly broken up with standing-based work and vice versa.
Similar to the risks of prolonged static seated positions, so too should prolonged static standing postures be avoided.

Did you also know...

Between 2018 and 2020 Leicester diabetes centre carried out the largest study of its kind on the effectiveness of a sitting intervention (SMART work programme) with 756 desk based participants. It found that just 1 hour reduction in workplace sitting led to staff feeling:

87%

More energised

53%

More engaged

58%

Less fatigued

50%

Less pain

71%

More focused

66%

More productive

33%

Less stressed

65%

Improved quality of life

The study and its findings can be read in full here