The Advantages of Ergonomic Office Furniture

Standing Desks

Sitting for long periods has been linked to an array of health problems including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, breast and colon cancer, and obesity. Office workers are advised to take regular movement breaks throughout the day to counteract the negative health effects from prolonged sitting. However, this doesn't always happen – especially with the busy schedules or workloads that some of us have. There’s good news though – there is a solution that will allow you to keep working while reducing the negative effects of sitting all day - the standing desk.

Standing desks will encourage more movement throughout the day, which can help to counteract the 'sedentary office lifestyle'. As well as reducing the ill-effects on health from prolonged sitting, standing desks can also encourage better posture, improve mood and energy levels, and even boost productivity!

Standing desks can be height-adjustable so you can alternate between standing and sitting  Products currently available give you the option of using a height-adjustable desk, or you can convert your existing work station into a standing desk with a desktop riser. 

Monitor Mounts

Monitors can take up valuable desk space and contribute to a messy looking desk. Additionally, if a monitor is positioned too high or too low, workers can experience neck aches and pains, strained eyesight, and back problems. As a rule of thumb, the top of your monitor screen should be at eye level and be approximately an arms-length away. Considering that each employee will sit at different heights, it can be hard to set monitors at the correct level for everyone. That’s where monitor mounts come in handy. They’re a cost-effective way to ensure monitors can be easily adjusted to suit every individual user with ease - including those that require more than one screen.

As well as reducing the risk of strain, and a messy desk, monitor arms can also allow you to rotate the screen or change the position of it entirely. This means you can switch to portrait mode if/when required.

Office Chairs

If your staff are sitting all day - and in a chair that is not suitable for their size, shape or posture this can have negative short-term effects such as lost focus and productivity and develop in to long-term effects such as poor posture and back pain.

Ergonomic office chairs can help to reduce these effects in numerous ways. They’re designed to conform to the body’s shape with support systems such as lumbar support to encourage better posture, Adjustable chair functions such as back angle, seat angle, seat height, lumbar support, arm-rests, seat slide will help support key joints such as the shoulders, back, neck, wrists, hips, and knees - and different seat sizes are available to meet the needs of all 'users'. To ensure optimal comfort, ergonomic office chairs need to be customisable to fit every individual user’s needs.

Aside from the most obvious benefits such as improved productivity and improved posture, business owners can reap the benefits through reduced compensation costs. Up to one third of compensation claims for work-related injuries are approved for MSDs (musculoskeletal disorders) – so an investment in ergonomic office chairs can help reduce business costs.