Sit and work without going anywhere

I have a job where I have to sit and work.. and I cannot even leave the desk during my work. I have to be at the desk all the time.. it is only when I am on a break I can get away from the desk .. so I try to do some work standing sometimes..

What a boss who does not let his workers go to the toilet !!! I can't stand sitting all the time without getting out of a chair. I normally walk out for a couple minutes to take a breath and come back again. Make sure when you go out you don't spend a long time. One or two minutes are fine.

Unfortunately, I work as a project manager. So part of my job is to keep moving and talking with all stakeholders. So I cannot afford to sit at one place and do my work. So I do keep moving and actually am rarely at my desk. Cheers! Ram

I work at home but usually change jobs once in a while so I´m not seated too much as my feet get swollen. It is very unhealthy not to take breaks once in a while or change the kind of activity you are doing.

I'm of the type that likes to stay in desk for long times without leaving for long times, but not because bosses don't allow me to do anything, but I simply like that. I get distracted quite easily and prefer to keep concentration on my work for as long as I can. Of course, after a good part is done, I take my relax, go toilet, talk with teammates and so on for a while as a break.

I got into a habit of drinking at work like a fish. My job was to talk all day on the phone. I can do that! Anyway, my mouth got dry so I found clean water was good and thought it was good for me. It is a habit I liked. We needed to log off before leaving our 'work station' so it was easy to keep track of apportioned break time.

Personally if I am sitting in front of the computer like now posting here on myLot I can often just sit here for hrs loosing track of time. But when I am at work since the chair I sit in answering phones is not near as comfortable I find myself having to get up a lot. Usually just to stretch unless I have to take my Insulin or use the restroom if I am not on break. Personally I think there is not a person who can always just sit still most of the time no matter what they are doing.

I don't know if somebody was doing something without going to the toilet to pee all day on their time on the office or at home? I can't do it stay longer to work without going to the toilet. Because I am regularly pee an hour or every 2 hours I think

Hi ChoiYee, I cannot sit in front of the computer for too long, the most I will spend time with the computer will not more than 2 hours. But my boss did. He can Sit in front of his computer without moving at all for almost 4 to 5 hours except going out for lunch. I think that is why he have got a huge and round body shape.

I'm able to check things on my computer and write for hours. But this is not good. Years ago I was a smoker and used to make breaks at least every hour when I was working in an office. I was going outside of the room chatting with other colleagues. It was better - not the smoking :D but the break, away from the computer screen, and the socializing. Now I often go out with my smoking colleagues just because of this.

I work mainly with my laptop. So theoretically, i have to sit in front of it for eight hours a day. I enjoyed it, because i think i can't fit in the field work. But in order to stay healthy, sometimes for a couple of hours, i'll take a break for 5-10 minutes, take some drink, go to the toilet, walking around my house, etc. And i enjoyed it very much! :)

Well I don't work behind a desk. But I do do alot of sitting. My job is to check IDs to make sure they belong at the site. That job gets very boring I do that for 8 hours those 8 hours feel like 16 hours. But it pay the bills thats what counts. I live in New York and New York is very expensive.

Are you serious? Your boss won't even allow you to go to the toilet to pee? That's violation of basic human right. You can't do that to prisoners even, forget employees. But on a more serious note, if you work a 8 hour shift, it is perfectly normal to take a total of 60 minutes off. Whether you take 10 six-minutes break or 6 ten-minutes break should be up to you. Also, if you think that not taking a break and working ceaselessly will make you more productive, you are wring. If anything, its going to be counter-productive. You need regular small breaks to refresh your mind.

Hi i guess I am lucky because my job is about management so I alternate computer time in the office to meetings and suppliers' visits. However when I am at home on my pc I can stay sitting for even 2 hours and time flys!

I have a very bad habit and it's always at home and not at office that I can be stuck on the computer for hours and hours on end, I get so wrapped up and deeply engaged with the internet that time flies by, I know it's not good on my eyes and if I was at work I would deliberately have frequent breaks, but when you are at home I think you get more lazier and when it's something you enjoy you keep at it. Sometimes I have wanted to go to toilet or missed meals because I have been too involved! I think the internet is not always a good thing. I never smoke, but where I used to work they were always always taking smoke breaks and because I didn't need to smoke would spend more time working than they would! Shame the manager never noticed or at least commented!

I have a bad habit of doing this type thing myself. I get wrapped up in whatever I happen to be working on at the time, and I lose all track of how much time has passed. I will eventually have to force myself to take a break to go to the bathroom, or I will force myself to go get a drink of water or something once I realize that it has been hours since I last had something to drink. I don’t do this sort of thing as much when I am sitting here working on the computer, but I am really bad about it when I am out in the yard working on something, or when I am working on something away from home. I have tried to get better about taking things with me to eat or drink when I go somewhere to work, and I try to remember to make myself get up and get something to drink, or to at least walk around a little when I am here working on the computer. It helps that I have three little dogs that want attention, and that need to go outside to go to the bathroom themselves. I usually try to get something to drink when I get up to do stuff for them, or to let them out. I have gotten better about taking breaks. LOL

While jobs say you get breaks etc here in the US it seems the more we do in our work the more the management thinks we can do. I used to work as a temp by a pharmacutical compnay. The top management come to me and asked me to hire on. I refused twice. I had it made do the work I trained to do and there was nothing else they could make me do. Finally 3rd time they come to me to hire me they told me they would have to hire an outsider if I did not take the position. I finally did as when I had come there almost a year before, no one really knew how to do the job I was doing and I figured it out for myself and maintained the quality of companies and their employees to get their prescriptions. So the day came when you do the hiring process filling out all the paperwork, etc, My supervisor kept coming back asking if I was finished yet. Finally at 2pm in the afternoon we were finished. I went to my supervisor and said I am finished. She got the asst supervisor and herself and we went in a room and they THEN told me that they had called the temp agency and a girl that had quit about a month ago was coming back and would take my work I had learned and trained myself on do my job and I would become an elegibility clerk. That meant I had my own accounts (about 150 of them) to control and answer to anyone on anything about their pharmacy problems. I will never forget I was hiring for one job and they switched me without asking while I was doing my paperwork. the lady they brought back through the temp service had worked previously in another dept., and had NO idea what she was doing. So I had to train her and train in my new position too. I stayed a year longer to get my evaluation and raise, then they prolonged htat for 3 months so I had backpay from the day I was to get my raise so the morning I got that check, I come in the next morning before others cleared my desk and never looked back. yes employers are always looking and thinking how they can get more out of a employee without you ever taking a break. The work was overwhelming for only 4 people in eligibility dept for a whole company.