Research and references

M.D. Antti Heikkilä, and expert in orthopedy and traumatology, nutrition and pain care says, "MMB Mighty MicroBreaker concentrates in essential upper body, arms, neck and head areas. It has proper durations, proper contents and the format is reasonable." More about philosophy of excercise see (unfortunately in Finnish only) http://www.anttiheikkila.com/.

Micro break workout as a whole is a fairly new and less researched subject. In a study done by an American university has established rise of 59 % in work efficiency caused by regular break workout. Expert comments prove even short, 1 minute, excercise performances having an effect. They need to be repeated few times a day, the more often the better.

Micro break workout pays the investment back in less than one week. Argument is true of course only by calculation, people will see the real benefits after 3-6 months. Quoted from Professor Alan Hedge, PhD, AFBPsS, MErgS, Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University , Ithaca, NY 14853-4401 ja Scott J. Evans, Manager Facilities and ESH, Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems. 

Statistically significant enhance in work efficiency by break workout is 59%.

Reference: http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/Pub/HFlabReports/EMReport201.pdf

Science suggests you to get your money back from The Mighty Microbreaker® investment. The investment is only round 0.02 per cent of your personnel costs. Perhaps you can afford it, can't you? The impact on productivity may be 1 percent. Thus the profit/investment ratio may be 50:1 or even more. Can you have any better projects?

And one more advantage. Perhaps your employees would feel better; maybe they will have less neck-shoulder-disorders.

"Workers who used computer software to remind them occasionally to assume good posture, take short breaks and occasionally stretch do more accurate work and as a result are more productive,according to a new Cornell study." http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/99/9.30.99/microbreaks.html

"More breaks, more often are good for business.You'll want to show it to your boss! Computer workers benefit from preventing disorders in muscles and skeletal structure."
http://www.polishedprose.com/microbreaks.html

Shoulder and neck pain is a common and increasing problem. A study made in Finland, ”Health 2000” showed that 26 per cent of men over 30 and 40 per cent of women suffer from it.

Journal of American Medical Association published the study, made in Jyväskylä. It clearly shows that workout is good for neck and shoulder problems.

The study comprised 180 office workers, who had neck and shoulder pains. The study took one year, and it showed clearly that workout and stretching helped people who had suffered a long time of the issue.”

http://www.ktl.fi/terveys2000/index.uk.html

We also suggest strength training:

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/search?fulltext=ylinen&submit.x=14&submit.y=12