Office workers are too sedentary often sitting at their desks for hours on end and even often eating lunch at their desks.

A new campaign has been launched to get workers up and moving around more.

Business Argus has been asking local business people how would you encourage your employees to move around more in a bid to improve their health?

Clive Thomas, managing partner at Watkins & Gunn Solicitors

We have a health and well being committee at Watkins and Gunn and they have come up with various ideas to get everyone moving more and eating less! These have included using pedometers to do a virtual walk to Mexico for the British Heart Foundation and inviting a personal trainer to advise us on diet and training. We also recently sponsored the George Thomas Hospice 5K fun run and encouraged our staff to take part.

Nikki Thomas, HR officer, HardingEvans Solicitors, Newport

We understand that a healthy workforce benefits the business as well as the individual. We have a variety of organised activities, including our Monday night five-a-side football matches or the weekly training meet with our very own #TeamHE running club. #TeamHE is unstoppable at the moment, having already completed the Pontypool 10k, Cardiff Bay 5 Mile and the Cardiff Half Marathon - the runners have now set their sights even higher and are taking part in the London Marathon in April. We often try to link our activities to fundraising, having recently raised money by taking part in organised events such as dragon boat racing, rowing regattas and golf competitions. One member of staff dedicated a huge amount of their time to swimming the distance of the channel, and in doing so raised lots of money for their chosen charity. Some brave members of staff will also be skydiving. For many people, lunch hours are spent in our staff room practising for the table tennis, pool or darts tournaments which are held annually. Then there are the weekly fitness classes at the local gym where a group of employees make their way on down at 5pm twice a week to attend cross-fit, boot camp and spin class. We always recognise and encourage achievements like these and it is no secret that good employee health and well -being is linked to greater productivity, less absenteeism, and an overall more motivated workforce. Our HR department is lucky enough to have a strong social committee which encourages and motivates all employees to take part in something.

Ross Porter, managing director, Clear Sky Recruitment, Blackwood

We actively encourage all staff to exercise as much as possible. Managers encourage team members to get up from their workstations regularly. We have moved the refreshment stations in our offices to areas that employees must now walk to. We are also looking into providing gym membership for our employees.

Robin Hall, managing director, Kymin, Newport

In this day and age with so much reliance on technology for communicating not only with customers and suppliers but also work colleagues it is so easy to get into the habit of sitting at your desk for the majority of the day. I personally try and go for at least a 20 minute walk into the city centre at lunchtimes which clears your head by getting some fresh air away from the office which I find makes you more alert in the afternoons. Our building is located on four floors and our meeting rooms located on the second floor, so we try and encourage face-to-face meeting rather than simply e-mailing colleagues. The kitchen and eating area is in the basement so every time someone wants a drink or to eat their lunch for instance they will have to move around. We don’t have the space for a dedicated games or exercise room but perhaps we should look into introducing some regular activity breaks which are said to boost creativity as well decreasing stress levels or making our weekly team meetings standing meetings instead of sitting around the board room table.