'sedentary work' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to an occupation or activity that requires sitting down for a long time and minimal physical activity. For example, "My job as an accountant is mostly sedentary work."
"They're really going to confront their grief," Mr. Ball (right) said in a telephone interview from a California gym where he was trying to "undo the damage" of nine months of sedentary work and junk food in the writers' room.
After my last column, on obesity as a workplace issue, my inbox was full of messages describing long days of sedentary work — along with lunches gulped down in the office, frequent travel and BlackBerrys that never seem to quit.
An inventor demonstrates his answer to a sedentary work force: a machine that allows an employee to work at a computer terminal while walking on a slow-moving treadmill.
The healthy construction worker expects to be able to do manual labour all day, while the bookkeeper, although perfectly capable of performing sedentary work, would be totally incapable of such heavy labour and indeed might collapse from the physical strain; yet both individuals might be termed completely healthy in terms of their own way of life.
Office employees are exposed to hazardous levels of sedentary work.
The FOG system can accurately measure exposure to sedentary work activities and certain biomechanical factors.
Sitting is frequently assumed to cause high spinal loads because people with sedentary work often suffer from low back pain.
A team of researchers from the Translational Medicine Branch of NHLBI hypothesized that a sedentary work force is at increased risk for future cardiovascular disease.
As metabolism slows with age, dinner invitations increase, sedentary work becomes more time-consuming, exercise more tedious…and suddenly there's an inner tube around your midriff.
The purpose of this study was to validate a new fibre-optic goniometer (FOG) system designed to identify sedentary work activities and measure their lumbar postural characteristics.
All remaining characteristics (gender, age at surgery, type of fracture, ISS, pre-trauma health status, sedentary work, and job sector) were not associated with return to work (all p values >0.05).
