It’s not just about your position while you sit, however. You should be able to slide your arm over the table without lifting your shoulder up.” To check, sit side on to your table if you have to lift your arm to reach the table top you are too low. Where your elbow lands is the same height that you want your table top to be. “When you have set yourself up appropriately in your chair put your hands in your lap comfortably. “A position for the body that you can sustain with minimal effort and gives you biomechanical advantages to do your work. “This is a position of ease for the body to maintain for a prolonged period of time – where the position supports the natural curves of the spine and maintains your body in good alignment,” she says. That might’ve been okay for a little while – but at this point you might be asking yourself, “it’s been a month and a half, and my elbow is really starting to hurt”, says Hallbeck. Perhaps, at first, your office said staff would be working remotely for a week or two, so you simply grabbed your laptop and left.
Good ergonomic habits take practice no matter the setting, but it’s especially hard in this current situation. So as we wash our hands and stay isolated to repel the coronavirus, how can we make sure we’re not subjecting our bodies to a different hazard caused by bad work-from-home habits? Here are the top ergonomic tips for working from home, whether it’s during a pandemic or not. For most of us, gone are the days when well-designed offices took care of all these problems for us. Many of us are finding ourselves hunched over laptops on sofas or beds, perched on hard dining room chairs or subjecting our arms and wrists to ill-placed keyboards. Now that we’re in the thick of the global Covid-19 pandemic, with hundreds of millions of people abruptly forced to work from home, it’s an urgent topic. And how if we don’t do it correctly, it can lead to physical problems and pain. Ergonomics is the study of how humans interact with the physical systems in their environment: how, for example, we sit at our desks for eight hours a day at work. That’s what Dr Susan Hallbeck, PhD says – she’s a doctor and the president of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and researcher at the Mayo Clinic, one of the largest academic medical centres in the US. “You can’t be productive when you’re in pain.”
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