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How Movement Breaks Impact Your Workday

We spoke to Melissa Painter, CEO and founder of Breakthru, an app that guides users through two-minute movement breaks, about the research on breaks and what her team has learned about taking better breaks from the Breakthru app’s two million monthly active users.
Charter Works in partnership with Time July, 27, 2025
Steal this idea: How Microsoft makes it easy to take regular movement breaks

At Microsoft, we believe that even the smallest moments of pause can make a big difference. That’s why I’m so proud of our ongoing collaboration the team at Breakthru. Since launching Breakthru in 2020, we’ve seen over 11,000 of our employees across 68 countries embrace these two-minute resets. Whether it’s a stretch, a breath, or a moment of calm, these breaks are helping our people feel better and work better.
Charter Works June, 5, 2025
Concentrix leadership boosts pilot adoption of Breakthru on Microsoft Teams by 48x

Breakthru and Concentrix leadership work together to enhance resilience and prevent burnout through movement and breathing microbreaks. With leadership actively supporting the launch, organic usage grew from 53 planned pilot users to nearly 3,000 users in 49 countries.
Microsoft May, 14, 2025
Breakthru’s microbreak app for Teams makes self-care a movement at NHS, organically reaching 85% of NHS Trusts

Breakthru partners with the NHS to improve healthcare worker’s mental and physical health through microbreaks. In just under a year over, Breakthru is being used in over 85 percent of the NHS Trust organizations and growing.
Microsoft October, 9, 2023

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