Outside of the US and Aldi's, there's plenty of places that allow employees who can do their job sitting to do it while sitting! My last two and current jobs, not only were there no break rooms but there wasn't a single non-customer chair for anyone to take a break, give their feet a rest or just drink a cup of water. I work with a pregnant woman. I work in one of the biggest malls in the US. Needless to say, walking from any store to your car actually takes a while. I just think about how sad it is that she, on break or not, can't sit and rest at all on the job. And on her official break, she either stands around the place, leaves the store and finds a chair somewhere in the mall, or spends the first 10 minutes walking to her car to be able to sit and be air conditioned. We need to do better. My boss shouldn't be asking me to sweep the same area in the last 30 minutes cause we aren't busy and he sees me just trying to take two minutes to ease the pressure off of my feet. Sitting != Lazy.