All Apple employees are getting standing desks because 'sitting is the new cancer'June 15 (AZINS) Employees at Apple’s new headquarters, Apple Park, are now being issued with standing desks and they will have the option to either stand or sit while doing their work.

In a recent interview with Carlyle Group's David Rubenstein, CEO Tim Cook said, “We have given all of our employees, 100%, standing desks. If you can stand for a while, then sit, and so on and so forth, it's much better for your lifestyle.” He also cited doctors who believe that “sitting is the new cancer”. According to a report by Business Insider, the standing desk is accompanied with desk chairs made by Vitra. Apart from this, the common areas and cafes at Apple Park include dotted chairs designed by Nauto Fukasawa along with custom made tables which are 18-foot long oak slabs.

Late last year, Apple unveiled its highly anticipated new campus, the Apple Park. The campus, which was designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners, covers 2.8 million square feet and accommodates 12,000 employees.

According to Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone, Apple’s new spaceship campus might have cost as much as $5 billion. That is almost, $1,785 per square foot and $12.40 per square inch! In conversation with Mercury News, Stone stated that the cost discrepancy could be attributed to misunderstandings about building permits and not fully accounting for labor costs. In September 2016, the Assessor's Office estimated that the Apple spaceship had, as of January 2016, cost $1.6 billion.

Previously, construction data and analytics startup BuildZoom estimated that the new Apple campus costs more than $1.1 billion. The report added that the Apple Park project was initially scheduled to open in 2015 but, it faced numerous delays which undoubtedly drove up costs.

It is also believed that its construction came amid a Silicon Valley economic boom, when the Bay Area faced a shortage of construction workers, according to Issi Romem, chief economist for BuildZoom.