Steelcase, a US office furniture manufacturer, has caught on to this trend, which is proving especially popular at work.

美国办公家具制造商Steelcase公司因为紧随这一趋势，而格外受到职场人士的欢迎。

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Research from GlobalWebIndex, cited by Steelcase, says the average time spent on mobile devices has increased by 200 per cent since 2012;

斯迪凯斯引用“全球网络指数”的研究称，目前人们在移动设备上平均花费的时间比2012年增长了200%；

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But KI's larger competitors, such as publicly traded Steelcase and Herman Miller, were hit worse by the tech falloff.

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Steelcase's Turnstone unit, which has been doing stand-up meetings for about a decade, for years played Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire, " to begin meetings.

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"Gathering big data about human behaviors can be a sensitive topic, " says Dave Lathrop, director of workspace futures and strategy at Steelcase Inc.

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