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The Flexible Location Work Model for knowledge workers, commonly known as ‘Hybrid’, is ubiquitous and actually on the rise in 2025, yielding significant benefits for employers and employees using computers for their work. The flip-side of that reality involves the rising tide of neck, back and other pain incidence in remote workers…

Office Ergonomics is often thought of by the average person as something purely structural: good furniture, adjustable desks, supportive chairs, etc. That’s all important, but a deep body of research confirms how employee behaviors play a controlling role in how workstation setups can promote comfort, prevent injury, and boost productivity long term. In fact, when we think it through, behaviors are the mechanism by which design produces outcomes.

Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS), is a preventable 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. Now, a 2025 study finds CVS Prevalence has ticked up from 66% to 69%. With the rise of individual workload demands, needed to fill in the gaps created by organizational streamlining and rightsizing over the past 18 months, CVS has emerged…

As a safety professional caring for your fellow employees, you’re well aware of the long-studied effectiveness of Office Ergonomics Best Practices on knowledge workers’ comfort, safety, productivity and wellbeing. There is, however, another benefit of these Best Practices which relates to mitigation of Digital Fatigue which has been rigorously studied over the past twenty years, including its prevalence increasing substantially over recent years.

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…

Several large-scale studies have been 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. Beyond chronic sitting, it’s well-understood how chronic standing is clearly unhealthy also, contributing to lower extremity swelling and venous pooling, higher incidence of varicose veins, lower extremity discomfort and fatigue, lower back pain, and general body and mental fatigue…