Running head: Intellectual and Sedentary Employment<#> Sedentary and Intellectual Employment Risks 08/03/2019 Sedentary and Intellectual Employment Introduction Workplaces all around the world are adopting sedentary working lifestyles. Healthcare management occupation is one. These intellectual jobs require sedentary work. It can possibly be viewed as a reward for required capabilities. There's pros and cons in intellectual and sedentary employment. Here we'll mention a few. Healthcare management jobs are becoming only available to those considered as intellectual. With the employee's intellectuality they're required to call the shots, and do more sedentary labor than physical. Desk jobs, and office jobs fit the description. Since they're already in the know they will create and manage plans to make sure a job is carried out correctly. This is probably more elementary to them than it would be to someone putting in physical labor, and vice versa. There's someone fit for everything. If done right it can be the rise in a healthcare setting through quality and quantity. If it fails it can be a catastrophic domino effect on the company and the employees. The con comes in when those that hold intellectual and sedentary employment, have rarely, if ever, been on the outside of the chair or office. It is easy to tell someone what to do. Can the person giving orders also carry them out? Intellectual employment saves a lot of physical thinking and acting in humans. It increases room for errors and road blocks. We should enforce physical labor being a requirement to avoid harming our body and altering the employer's health. The Sedentary Lifestyle Problem It is very important for hospitals, or any healthcare setting to inform the employee of the risks associated with their job description. Sedentary employment offers the benefit of not standing over 6 hours out of an eight-hour work day. They are also permitted to only lift so many Sedentary and Intellectual Employment pounds. To most people this may sound enticing, it sounds like just the job that they’ll choose to retire with. The disclaimer is that this is not compatible with the human body, interferes with proper communication in the workplace, and can possibly lead up to lawsuits against the company. Furthermore, sedentary employment does everything, but promote and contribute to a healthy lifestyle. It isn’t “America friendly” because it also contributes to weight gain. For the healthcare company it promotes faster service with the intelligence of technology, and outwit competitors with being able to perform additional testing. These gadgets can handicap the mind from doing what has been embedded in Western culture for survival, cognitively and critically thinking. “Developing our abilities to think more clearly, richly, fully—individually and collectively— is absolutely crucial to solving world prob ...