However most of the staffs sitting at their desk for long hours

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However, most of the staffs sitting at their desk for long hours without regular breaks. Although in the workplace design, the photocopy machine, pantry and wash room are located in one of the corner, perhaps it may encourage staffs take a break to collect the photocopy or refill the water, but somehow it is a short distance only. According to General Manager, Mr. Lee, there are lack of physical activities among the staffs. This may due to the long hours working from 8.00 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. causing staffs have no time to allocate exercise time in weekday. Moreover, some staffs still need to participate in community volunteer meetings or activities after work. One of the staff couple in the office, Mrs. Low said she need to go back home to prepare dinner for the family, while Mr. Low go to jogging after the work. Others need to rush to school to fetch children (eg. Ms. Goh and Ms. Tan). In Manaf’s (2003) study, that aimed to identify the external and internal barriers to physical activity and exercise participation among middle-aged and elderly individuals the most common external barriers among the middle-aged and elderly respondents were ‘not enough time’, ‘no one to exercise with’ and ‘lack of facilities’. We took the yoga class as an example to study the exercise behavior among the staffs. The yoga class was initiated by the Nurse Trainer, Ms. Teoh after discovered two of colleagues been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. The cues to action was the illness of our close colleagues and friends. Health Belief Model (HBM) proposes that people will not seek (preventive) health behaviors unless they possess minimal level of health motivation and knowledge, view themselves as potentially vulnerable to the health problem, view the condition as threatening, are convinced of the efficacy of the “treatment”” (Biddle & Nigg