Majority of people who routinely work from home don’t do so ergonomically

Over two thirds of people take work home with them from the office at least once a week, but the majority of these could be risking their health by using inappropriate office set ups, a new survey claims. Retailer Furniture123.co.uk has revealed that while 41 percent take work home with them at least once per week, the vast majority do not do so from a desk set up as just one in three (34 percent) of those who work from home claim to do their work at a desk within their home. Only one in five (19 percent) do so from an office chair in their home – risking problems such as repetitive strain injury and back injuries, due to poor posture, especially as one in four (24 percent) claim to work from their sofa when doing overtime in their homes. One in three (32 percent) of those who failed to work from either a desk or office chair claimed that this lack of a proper set up was due to not having enough space in their homes for this type of furniture.

Via workplaceinsight.net