Easy Desktop Yoga: Relieve Stress and Prevent Workplace Injuries
EasyDesktopYoga has some great videos for simple stretches and exercises you can do right at your desk. This is a great way to take a break and relax, which can prevent injuries and workday stress....
View ArticleErgonomics Economics: Prevention is a Good Investment
A post from Ergonomics Economics sound eerily similar to the climate change debate to me. Basically, industry tries to save money by ignoring problems until they reach crisis state. Whether it is the...
View ArticleFeasibility of Changing Minds, Changing Habits
There are so many products labeled ergonomic; why is that? There are so many products but none have really taken off. Why is that? People sitting on balls as their main chair is newsworthy; why is...
View ArticleErgonomics is all about equipment
I’m not putting that title down lightly. Check this study out. EXEC Summary: proper ergonomic training is not enough to gain significant improvements in employee standards of working or general...
View ArticleLance Ulanoff, maybe the problem is YOU
In his recent posts, Lance Ulanoff has been bashing ergonomics. Typically, I take in criticism of ergonomics quite calmly because, to a certain degree, I also doubt the extent to which ergonomics can...
View ArticleEating At Your Desk: A Guilty Pleasure
Judging by how often I see my coworkers do this (and yes, I do it too), and the plethora of images I found on Flickr when entering the tags “lunch” and “desk,” eating at one’s desk is a common...
View ArticleSteelcase Treadmill Workstation — Office of the Future?
I wrote in the past about the “walking while working” movement composed of a small but growing group of people abandoning their desks for a healthier alternative– a workstation jerry-rigged to a tread...
View ArticleBest Tips for Ergonomics in the Office
If you spend all day working at a computer in an office, you are at risk for debilitating pain such as back pain and head aches or even permanent injury like carpal tunnel syndrome and repetitive...
View ArticleWhy I Invented the Stand Up Desk Kit
Video about the Stand Up Desk Kit There I sat on a typical afternoon, at my desk, having come back from a lunch of burgers and fries; the software engineer’s diet. A passer-by may have thought I was...
View ArticleIs Your Office Space Making You Sick?
I came across this great infographic on germs in the office workplace, well worth a look. Funny anecdote: Mens work spaces are 20% dirtier than women’s! At least 50% of Americans eat lunch and snack at...
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