Ergonomic Office Chairs, Fact of Fiction?

The answer to the question is simply Fact!

Lost work days from you employees, the pain suffered by the employee whilst there off work. The two major factors why you should have ergonomic office chairs [http://www.niodonline.co.uk].

If you know you could reduce sick days taken you would, your company would be ore productive, more productive staff equals more profits. That's what businesses are here for to make profit if anyone tells you there business is not there to make money, well there lying or just mental.

75% of the working population are no chair bound and less active, abdominal and trunk mussels slacken, further increasing the instability of the spine and the risk of back pain.

80% of the population suffering from some sort of back pain and with recent reports showing that 44% of all reported strains and sprains, which required more than three days off work, were of the back of spine and most commonly it is related to discs in the back being compressed from maintaining a position in sitting (especially for a prolonged period).

I haven't done the math but to say that's a lot of lost productive hours is the understatement of the year. As we are in a global recession and every working hour counts why are we ignoring a problem that could be easily solved? Other studies show that rocking back and forth on a chair can make the brain function better and it's obvious that you function better when comfortable.

It's not just the office worker who suffers from ill fitting office chairs, have you seen the seating in schools? Hard backed plastic or wooden seats with no form of adjustment, I was always getting told off for rocking back on my school chair, but now I know that my brain was getting stimulated by this rocking motion making me work harder and learn quicker, the things you learn with are.

There are now hundreds of manufactures of ergonomic office chairs from the big names like the Herman Miller Aeron to smaller companies producing budget chairs that work from £80 + VAT. There is no reason why you employees should still be sitting on unsuitable office chairs that not only are uncomfortable but cost you money in lost hours.

There's no excuse, the next time you buy a chair for the office make sure it's ergonomic.