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The Healthy Office
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
If you work in IT, no doubt you spend a good amount of time working at a terminal. Staring into a screen, dragging and dropping with a mouse and relentless typing of material are commonplace to the industry.
We all know the inherent risks of a life too long spent in this position, too:
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Poor eating habits leading to malnutrition and/or obesity
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Carpal tunnel syndrome from too many repetitive tasks
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Back problems due to poor chair ergonomics
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Eye strain, headaches and fatigue because of focused attention for long periods
Because of this, many firms employ simple tactics to help address these employee health concerns. Diet and nutrition classes, special devices and techniques to improve hand manipulation, customized chairs and exercises, and better computer screens and work habits are often added to improve conditions. While this is sufficient to take care of a number of basic problems, other companies are exploring more comprehensive ways to greatly improve the fitness, vitality and well-being of their workforce.
Beyond The Band-Aid
For the large office corporation, a nurse or clinic-like facility is often integrated into the workplace, sometimes as part of a fitness or exercise center. Not unlike those you may have visited when you were a youth at school, they are commonly set up for …
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