Can we stay healthy if we experience microgravity for 8 hours every day?

Let's say that at an asteroid mining site, the workers live in a rotating wheel space station that can produce 1g. They use Earth's 24 hour day, and for 8 hours a day, people go to the asteroid to work, which means they experience 8 hours of microgravity. When they're not working, people live in the rotating station.

My question is, can the people in the space station stay healthy by just being in the space station, assuming their level of activity is about the same as most people on Earth? Or would they need special exercises like astronauts in the ISS?

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