The average person who works in an office spends a third of their productive hours in the office achieving task and interacting with colleagues and other stakeholders. Have you ever given a thought to how your lifestyle in the office affects your health? Read this presentation to find out 13 office lifestyles negatively impacting on your health.

1. 13 Office Lifestyles and How They
Affect Your Health
By Jude Akhabue

2. What is your Typical
Work Day Like?

3. Habit
maketh a man
Health
is wealth
It’s not all about
the money
Most Nigerians are
reactive about health
issues

5. Working in the Dark
 You’re always working alone
 Straining your eyes
 Slouching on your chair
 Stealing from your quality ‘after work’ home
time
 Positioning yourself as an easy prey for crime.
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6. Sitting for too
long
Metabolic Syndrome
A name given to multiple problems that include high cholesterol levels,
high blood pressure, high-fat levels around the waist and increased blood
sugar levels
Reverse Exercising
DVT – Deep Vein Thrombosis
Clot that forms in your leg, often because you sit still for too long
Weight gain.
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7. Skipping
breakfast3
Weight gain
Impact on mood and energy level
Worsens hangover
Tendencies to eat junk food
Food poisoning
Cost.

8. Long Meetings
 Mental fatigue
 Uneasiness and urge for meeting to end
 Productive time is wasted.
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9. Printer’s Neighbours
Respiratory irritation and infection
Eye irritation
Heat
Headache and fatigue.
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10. Keyboards and mouse Usage6
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

11. Smartphones are Culprits too7
Germs
Radioactive emissions
Social interaction cut off

12. Your Phone Carries 18 times more bacteria than a toilet handle

13. Laptop on Lap
Destroys
sperm cells.
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14. Working long hours
Heart attack
Obesity
Muscular and posture damage
Strain on the eye
Easy prey of crime
Increased fatigue
Low productivity
Poor social life.
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15. Prolonged Staring at a screen10
Eye strain
Dry eyes
Blurry vision
Headaches.

16. Hiding in the shade
Vitamin D is produced by the body when the skin is hit by
UVB rays, with 7-dehydrocholesterol being the resulting
chemical. But most glass windows block this wavelength
meaning you can't reap the health benefits.
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Soft and weak bones
Hair loss
Impaired wound healing.

17. Human Toxicity12
 Harassment
 Emotional breakdown
 Pressure to ‘over impress’
 Stress

18. ChloroFloroCarbons (CFC)
Emissions
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Ozone layer depletion
• Global warming
• Acid rain
• Skin cancer
Immune System Deficiency
Respiratory traction irritation.

19. ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS

20. KEY TAKE OUTS
1. Working in the dark
2. Sitting or to long
3. Foodies
4. Long meetings
5. Printer neighbours
6. Keyboard and mouse usage
7. Smartphones
8. Laptop on lap
9. Working long hours
10. Prolonged Staring at screen
11. Hiding in the shade
12. Human toxicity
13. ChloroFloroCarbon emission
 Get proactive
 Reform any habit that you think isn’t helping make you
healthier
 Get closer to nature
 Believe and live your dream life
 Smart work pays, not necessarily hard work

22. REFERENCES
1.
https://www.livescience.com/22822-cell-phones-germs.html
2.
http://www.ohsrep.org.au/hazards/ohs-reps-@-work-plant-/office-hazards-photocopiers,-printers-etc
3.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1104/11040501