Ergonomic Office Chairs: Task Desk Executive Conference Training Chair for a healthy or bad back

1. Applied Ergonomics
The Source for
Solutions

2. New ways to work, new challenges
Totally mobile computing
Cloud storage
More mobile workforce
Pressure to reduce real estate cost and carbon
footprint per employee
• Increasing collaboration both on projects and
documents
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3. Major Challenges
• Accommodating multi-generational workstyles
– Millennials
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Are multi-taskers
Prefer e-mail or IM to face-to-face conversation
Not easily phased by noise or commotion
Less prone to back problems and other ailments
– Older generations
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Tend to be more linear
Prefer phone or in-person conversation
Need more focused concentration work areas
More prone to back problems
Require more light to see

4. Ergonomic Challenge #1
• Ergonomically, laptop computers force bad
posture and should not be used at a desk all
day long.

5. Ergonomic Challenge #2
• Under-desk Storage
– LEED-mandated lower heights have led to storage
based systems with low open bookshelves. These
are back injuries waiting to happen!

6. Ergonomic Challenge #3
• Sound in Open Plan cuts both ways
– Distracting to many people
– For newer employees, good way to disseminate
collective knowledge through overheard
conversations
– For managers, good way to catch mistakes being
made

7. Ergonomic Challenge #4
• Light and energy usage
– As we age we require geometrically more light to
see
– Lighting uses 26% of average office building power
Age 20
Age 60

8. Laptop Use Response
• Treat the laptop as a CPU or monitor at most
– Separate keyboard and mouse: Goldtouch Go is
small, light and protected to fit in laptop bag
– Raise monitor height with thin riser

9. Continue to provide adjustability
• At the office, even at unassigned desks,
provide at least some that have keyboard trays
and larger monitors on arms with easy plug-in
for laptop without docking.

10. Sit or Stand
• Give people the opportunity to work standing
up as well as sitting down. Even without a
treadmill, standing can help users lose
substantial weight over the course of a year,
as well as
relieve back
pain.

11. AE Computer Ergonomic Resources
• We work extensively with both Humanscale
and Workrite, as well as Chief, Innovative, ISE,
ESI and others
• We carry our own branded ergonomic product
as we source directly from CompX, the largest
OEM manufacturer
• We carry our own lines of electric height
adjustable tables, plus SIS, Mayline and others

12. Sound Attenuation Resources
• Acoustic workstation panels
• Sound masking system: Lencore Spectra

13. Lighting Resources
• LED Ambient lighting:
– Waldmann moveable ambient lighting with
occupancy sensor and daylight harvesting sensors

14. Lighting Resources
• LED Task Lighting
– Newest under-bin and swing arm options from
Workrite, Humanscale, Waldmann & Luxo

15. Panel and other Modular Systems
Tayco Cosmopolitan combined with UP

16. Artopex Air

17. Fluid Concepts

18. Collaborative Video Huddles
• SIMO Corp IMT: Interactive Media Technology

19. Moveable Walls
• Alur Glass
• Starwall

20. Challenge: Seating
• If people are moving around and sitting and
standing, what chairs will fit?
• ANSWER: Simple, flexible and supportive