What standing all day at work can do to your body

Standing all day can cause lower back and leg pain - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

While traveling in Europe, Margaux Lantelme noticed something different about the store cashiers: they did their work sitting down.

For Lantelme, a Chicago REI cashier, the disparity highlighted the difficulty American workers face in obtaining accommodations for physical limitations, even when such accommodations are commonplace elsewhere.