Effects on 24-h physical behaviors and heart rate variability during sleep of a co-created workplace intervention to promote recovery in office workers with flexible work
Johanna Edvinsson, Svend Erik Mathiassen, David M. Hallman · 2026
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Johanna Edvinsson and co-authors test, in a 2026 controlled study, a workplace program meant to protect recovery for office workers on flexible arrangements. Blurred boundaries between work and rest come with flexible schedules, yet few interventions target recovery in such settings, so one unit of a large government organization built the program together with researchers.
Twenty-seven workers took an individual course on work strategies and joined a workshop setting shared rules for flexible work, while 21 colleagues in a similar unit worked as usual. After twelve months, the program group slept on average 36 minutes longer per night, while controls lost 23 minutes, a large effect. Effects on the balance between activity and inactivity across the day, and on heart rate variability during sleep, stayed limited. The authors credit the combined individual and team-level design for the sleep gain.
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| CREATOR | Johanna Edvinsson, Svend Erik Mathiassen, David M. Hallman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47359 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |