Working at a PC for hours isn't much fun. But it can also be physically painful; aches and pains may be your body's way of telling you that you have a poor posture. If you don't do something about it, these aches and pains could lead to more severe problems.
Step 7. Click ‘View your statistics' to see your rating on a graph. Good periods are green, while red means you were leaning forward and orange that you were slumped back. You can adjust the timeframe to view the last hour, week, month or year. Select ‘How am I doing?' to get a full breakdown and performance rating.
Step 8. Now it's time to assess your work environment. Make sure that the objects you use most frequently are easily accessible, so that you don't have to repeatedly stretch or twist to reach them. If you spend a lot of time on the phone, get a headset. This will prevent you from straining the muscles in your neck.
Step 9. Make sure your desk is free of clutter. Use an in tray for loose bits of paper and a desk tidy for your stationery. If you often copy-type from paper documents, use a holder to position them close to and level with your monitor. Also tidy any cables out of the way. See How to clean up your PC for more de-cluttering advice.
Step 10. Try not to eat at your desk. Crumbs and leftover food create a unhealthy working environment, while spilled drinks can damage electronic equipment. If you must eat and type, regularly use antibacterial wipes to clean your desk and use a can of compressed gas to blast away the crumbs from your keyboard.
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MalcolmF said: In the world of experts there is no such thing as an individual - and many of the experts have managed to become experts without actually passing through the stage of gaining experience This accounts for their lack of knowledge about things like bifocalsUsing my laptop is as you say using my desktop is either a case of sit further back and use the distance part because its a nice big screen or wear reading glasses and move inOf course most experts know that everybody who wears glases is short sighted Many of us are long sighted somewhere a bit beyond infinity without optical aids
Rikstar said: I never read monitor placement advice that takes into account users who wear bifocal or varifocal glasses If the top of my monitor was level with my eyes my head would be constantly tilted back so I could see through the botton portion of my lenses - a great recipe for neck ache if ever there was one The best position for me is to have the monitor top level with my shoulders which is exactly what I get when I use a large laptop on me knees