They have been championed by Steve Jobs, Sigmund Freud, Aristotle – and any character of note in The West Wing. Walking meetings are now being prescribed by Public Health England (PHE) as a potential cure to chronic sedentarism in the workplace (“Sitting is the new smoking,” Dr James Levine, one of the US’s leading obesity experts, has warned). “Move more. Get up and walk about. And I don’t just mean in the office,” reads PHE chief executive Duncan Selbie’s planned speech at the group’s annual conference this week, according to the Times. “Go out for a walk, get some fresh air for a meeting.”
That’s all very well, Duncan, but let’s not march past reception without this vital guide to the art of the walk’and’talk.
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