Foot Health
What Twelve Hours in Closed Shoes Does to the Skin on Your Feet
Feet carry one of the highest concentrations of sweat glands in the body, and a closed work shoe gives that moisture nowhere to go.
Rachel writes about comfort products for people who spend their working day standing. She has spent years on shop floors and in warehouses, and she tests everything she writes about in ordinary shifts rather than in a lab.
Articles by Rachel Donovan
Life on Your Feet
The Two Minute Reset That Fits Inside a Shift
You cannot always sit down. You can almost always do this, and it addresses the actual mechanism behind heavy legs.
Life on Your Feet
Why Standing Still Is Harder on Your Body Than Walking
People who walk ten thousand steps at work often finish the day feeling better than people who stood in one place. That is not a paradox.
Life on Your Feet
Coming Off a Night Shift: What Your Legs Need First
The order you do things in after a long night makes a noticeable difference, and most people do it backwards.
Pain & Recovery
Night Cramp in the Calf and Foot: What Is Actually Going On
Common, harmless in most cases, and genuinely horrible. Here is the current understanding and the small number of things worth doing.
Buying Guides
What Insoles Actually Cost You Over a Year
The number on the packet is not the price. Replacement frequency decides the real figure, and it varies more than the sticker does.
Workplace Wellbeing
Anti-Fatigue Matting: What It Does and Where It Fails
The mechanism is real and quite specific. So are the situations where matting solves nothing and gets blamed for it.
Workplace Wellbeing
Staying Hydrated When You Cannot Leave the Floor
The practical obstacle is rarely forgetting to drink. It is that drinking has a consequence you may not have time for.
Buying Guides
Anti-Fatigue Mats: What Actually Helps, and What Is Just Foam
A good mat changes a hard floor into a slightly forgiving one. The category is full of thin foam that flattens in a month, so the differences are worth knowing.