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If you spend most of your workday in front of a computer, then creating an ergonomic workspace is essential if you want to ensure that you complete your jobs as quickly and efficiently as possible. Besides, with an ergonomic friendly computer workspace area, you are far less likely to suffer from RSI. So, the following are 5 ergonomic tips for your computer workspace area:

• Monitor

Try to always make sure that your line of vision to the computer monitor is at 45 degrees. Do not place your computer monitor so that you are always looking up as if you were in the first row of a movie theater!

• Hard drive

Place your hard drive either under your desk or under your computer monitor. Wherever possible, try not to place your monitor on your table apart from your monitor as this will possibly result in you having a cluttered desk-top.

• Paper

If you need to make reference to paper or need paper to write comments on, then be sure you prepare a source of paper close to your computer keyboard. Also, if you are touch-typing your bosses handwritten notes, make sure that you have a document reviewer that you can put next to you monitor so that it makes it easier to read than if you put the notes flat on the desktop and attempt to read them from there.

• Chair

Bear in mind that if you sit in a chair for hours on end then this could very well have a large impact on any back problems that you may have. Make sure you lay the chair correctly to your height so that you are able to work at your work station safe in the knowledge that your chair’s positioning isn’t going to harm your health.

• Plants

It is always nice to see plants at a person’s workspace at it expresses they have an interest beyond working all day! Although you may not automatically associate having plants near your workspace compares to an ergonomic working surroundings, in point of fact the peace they provide you with usually work wonders!

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