Body Support in the Office:

Sitting, Seating, and Low Back Pains

Clerical workers stood on the job until around the middle of the nineteenth century. When employers concluded that their workers might be more productive in a seated position, people began to sit at the office.
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Embracing Boomers:

How Workplace Design for Maturing Knowledge Workers Benefits Everyone

The baby boomer generation is staying healthier and more active--and working longer--than any generation before it. This trend is occurring just as many companies are realizing the value of employing maturing workers. For these workers to contribute their fullest, they will likely require workplace modifications and schedule adjustments that address the changes aging brings--a decline in vision, hearing, or muscle strength and dexterity; an increase in cognition time required to process and recall information. A concept called universal design holds promise for meeting the needs of older workers. It proposes that as many people as possible be able to use a product or environment. To do this, universal design takes the full range of human limitations and disabilities into account. The lesson from these efforts is clear--creating environments for aging eyes, tools that require less strength to operate, and workspaces positioned at heights appropriate for an aging body also benefits younger workers.
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Ergonomics:

Everybody Deserves a Good Chair

You may be asking yourself what difference it makes: A chair is a chair, right? Well, not quite. First, people who sit down to work for long periods of time run a high risk of low-back injury, second only to those who lift heavy weights; and the risks increase with age. Also, the total number of lost work days and the cost of each back injury are increasing.
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