Home office ergonomics is about making sure your home work station is set up in a healthy way that doesn’t create pain and discomfort.  There are ideal configurations and better positions, but there is no one perfect way.  Even the perfect position will start to create pain in the body if we stay like that for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.  Here are some tips for improving your home office to create a healthier happy body:

Home Office Ergonomics Tips

• Variety

Look to change your position as often as possible (every 45-minutes would be ideal).  Remember it’s being in one position for extended periods that create pain and strain over time (or for some of us pretty quickly).  You can make a quality work station out of a couch, a kitchen table, a counter, and even a bed.

You can sit on a pillow on the floor, facing the couch, using the couch as a desk.  You can flip around and have the base of the couch give you back support and use a chair as a desk.  Think outside the […]