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Choosing The Right Laptop Computer Desk

Computer desks have many features in common.
They are designed to hold a computer and all of its various components, like a scanner, monitor, and keyboard.
These desks have storage, shelves, and compartments.
They have an opening in the back for the wires to escape from so that they can be plugged into the outlets easily.
Many are made [...]

Amazing Home Office Setups

Ever feel envious of another person’s office setup? Well, it’s very common.
You walk into a well-equipped ergonomic office, with advanced technology and all the fancy office fixins’.
The office owner has clearly taken full advantage of office ergonomics and proudly displays a comfortable chair, a large LCD monitor set at the perfect adjustment in its monitor [...]

Decrease Overhead Costs By Reducing Workplace Injuries

Workplace injuries continue to be a major concern for businesses, both large and small.
According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, more than 4 million non-fatal injuries and illnesses occur each year.
These injuries account for approximately $20 billion in workers’ compensation costs per year.
In addition to the direct costs associated with workers’ compensation, there are [...]

How To Stay Healthy In The Computer Era?

Let’s begin your quest to stay healthy and fit in the computer era by addressing your foundation.
Unless you have a health condition that makes it difficult to sit for a long period of time, your foundation while working on the computer is likely your pelvis.
Your pelvis serves as a base for your spinal column, which [...]

Top 5 Health Problems Caused By Computer Use

In the world today computers run rampant. Everyone has something, ranging anywhere from a laptop to a desktop or a cell phone.
Technology is taking over. With technology come health problems, just like with cars. If someone drives a car all day long (like taxi drivers) they could have some serious back problems.
If some one is [...]

Humanscale Makes The Switch To An Ergonomic Mouse

Using a mouse and keyboard for hours on end each day can have some bad effects on the wrist and fingers for some people.
Repetitive stress injuries can cause a lot of pain and once you get an injury, it takes some specialized gear to help make things less painful.
You can get ergonomic mice like the [...]

Dangers Abound If You Work At Home

It has come to our attention here at WHOA that a growing number of Americans work at home, partly because high gasoline prices discourage commuting and partly because workers are tired of getting dressed in the morning.
WHOA warns all Americans that home offices have their dangers, same as other workplaces. Hazards often are overlooked because [...]

Best Exercises To Do At Your Desk

Exercise is simply the act of keeping your body busy, using your muscles and bones while your heart keeps pumping.
You may feel you have no time to do any such thing amid all the rapid-fire e-mails and six-person conference calls.
You’re not alone. With unemployment up at a five-year high of 6.1%, more of us are [...]

Ergonomics Can Help Ease Tension Headaches

20% of chronic headaches may be caused by shoulder or neck tension.
Often, this tension is caused by poor posture while sitting at a computer or from chronic stress. The following symptoms are related to tension headaches:

Pain at the base of the skull
Aches behind [...]

Ergotron To Ease Notebook Users’ Pain

Ergotron has rolled out a stand and a wireless keyboard and mouse combo to help folks use good ergonomics…even with back- and wrist-destroying notebook computers.
Those tiny screens are always at a bad angle, the keyboards are atrocious, and, let’s face it: the only time anyone really wants to use one of those hot plates on [...]