Human office environments have a lot to do with productivity and efficiency. We may scoff at all the studies that are done on how to streamline systems for doing things and unnecessarily technical efforts at maximizing productivity, but when eliminating steps in a process saves time for a company, that can be converted into profit. When creating a comfortable workspace designed with the help of biotechnology makes your workforce more efficient the cost directly effects profit as well. Ergonomics, the science of human factors in objects and processes, has produced measurable advances in the work place. Again, you may laugh and say, "It's just a chair" or "It looks like a regular work station," but ergonomic office furniture is making workers more comfortable in their tasks, and, by extension, more productive. How your office station is furnished and laid out makes a big difference. Not convinced? Have you ever marveled, for example, how you could get so physically exhausted when all you have done all day is sit at a desk and type in statistics? If you did not stay up late the night before playing Halo 3, your chair may be to blame. When your chair causes uncomfortable stress on your back or hurts your circulation because the seat is too large or too high, you suffer from fatigue. And that could be the least of the trouble. Everyone has heard of carpal tunnel syndrome. Ergonomic design helps reduce the incidence of this injury. Recognizing how to position your body and adjust the height of your chair, workstation, and keyboard can protect you from carpal tunnel syndrome as well as strain in back and neck. To the lay person, the concept of ergonomics may sound a bit too New Age or technical. In the end, though, it simply has to do with making humans more comfortable and productive, and that, indisputably, is a good thing!
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