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Although computers are an integral part of our daily lives, transforming how we work, communicate, and entertain ourselves, it’s become well-understood how the dangerous endemic rise in sedentary behavior and prolonged static postures harms our bodies. Many studies over the years have confirmed these prolonged periods of sitting and repetitive motions have significant adverse effects on our health, well-being and productivity.

Digital Eye Strain (DES), also known as Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS), is a condition which often results from chronic unmanaged use of digital devices such as computers, smartphones, and tablets due to the repetitive need for viewing text and images often at very small scale. With the rise of individual workload demands, needed to fill in the gaps created by organizational streamlining and rightsizing in 2024, DES has emerged as a significant concern of many employers due to palpable human and financial costs.

Many organizations including the WHO, AMA, NIH and EU-OSHA and others around the globe have called out the pressing need for employers to mitigate the well-understood and significant health risks from prolonged static postures…

New data analysis, on worker injuries published last month by the University of Connecticut, shows a 21% increase in Carpal Tunnel and other injuries compared to during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic. While remote work was unavoidably the norm ‘during’ the Pandemic, data ‘at the time‘ didn’t allow for the passage of time where workers are working in poor ergonomic conditions involving…

How many risk exposures can you find in the open-floorplan shared-workstation picture here? Despite the modern furniture and equipment, they are risks exposures which underpin the importance of “employee behavior” as a dominant variable in the risk model…

We’ve seen some significant large-scale studies published in recent years confirming irrefutable disruptive health issues, for the average otherwise-healthy population, resulting from sustained static postures particularly involving prolonged sitting at work….