Japanese boss makes everyone sit on their balls all day
A fun-loving Japanese boss has decided that everybody has to sit on their balls in the office…Their exercise balls that is. Read the following giga-goofy Google Translate of the Yomiuri News…
Is a sense of balance in business important? Balls for chairs in the workplace
YOMIURI ONLINE (Google Translate) Oct. 23, 2012
The entire office staff of Nakano Pharmaceuticals now must work seated on balance balls. Exercise ball-chairs are placed throughout the company’s offices, conference rooms, and dining rooms.
Located in Kyoto Japan, Nakano Pharmaceutical manufacturers hair cosmetics for beauty salons.
Company president Kotaro Nakano (age 52) was suffering from low back pain and his fitness club recommended he should to sit on a ball-chair, “to strengthen his back muscles.” Since his condition became so remarkably better, last April, president Nakano introduced the balance balls in all the offices of the company except laboratories.
The purchase amounted to a total of 400 balance balls for use in the Kyoto head office as well as in the company’s factory in Shiga Prefecture and their Tokyo branch. Each ball cost 2000 yen [$25 USD] and is 75 cm [30 inches] in diameter.
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October 23rd, 2012 at 5:00 pm
They must be having a ball…
October 23rd, 2012 at 5:07 pm
I swallowed a chewing gum once…
October 23rd, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Sometimes you sit on the balls.
Sometimes the balls sit on you.*
*With appolgies to The Big Lebowski.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:28 am
And sometimes your a ball buster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFW3mljmEdM
October 25th, 2012 at 10:04 am
Replacement of office chairs with balance balls at Nakano Seiyaku
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Nakano Seiyaku Co., Ltd.｜News
…Nakano Seiyaku Co., Ltd. has entirely changed the chairs used in all business premises from ordinary office chairs to balance balls from this April…
….We have always been a company which has actively tackled health improvement for our employees…in 1993 we created separate areas for smoking and non-smoking within the workplace, followed that with a number of policies designed to promote non-smoking and achieved a 100% rate of non-smoking amongst all company employees by 2007…more…
October 25th, 2012 at 11:19 am
Sidenote, dat must be awesum during earthquakes…
October 25th, 2012 at 11:31 am
Unlike the typical Japanese office, nobody will be sleeping at their desks at Nakano Co.
November 3rd, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Damn, I could never work at such a sit-on-balls office. I play with my balls too much as it is!