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Varying the Office Work Posture between Standing, Half-Standing and Sitting Results in Less Discomfort

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Abstract

In this study 10 subjects worked two weeks in their rather new normal work station and two weeks in another work station. These VDU workers were trained and received a table making standing work possible. They also received a chair making half sitting possible. The effects on experienced variation in posture and discomfort were studied. It appeared that most of the time people work in the normal sitting situation (69% in the new and 90% in the old work station). Sometimes the half sitting and standing posture was used in the new situation. This new situation had a significant lower discomfort in the back, neck and shoulder region compared with the old situation.

Keywords

  • variation in posture
  • VDU work
  • sitting
  • discomfort
  • standing work

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  1. TNO Work and Employment, Polarisavenue 151, 2130, AS Hoofddorp, the Netherlands

    Peter Vink

  2. Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

    Peter Vink

  3. Ergoshop, the Netherlands

    Ineke Konijn

  4. Human Kinetic Technology, The Hague University, the Netherlands

    Ben Jongejan & Monique Berger

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  1. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706-15721513, Madison, USA

    Ben-Tzion Karsh

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Vink, P., Konijn, I., Jongejan, B., Berger, M. (2009). Varying the Office Work Posture between Standing, Half-Standing and Sitting Results in Less Discomfort. In: Karsh, BT. (eds) Ergonomics and Health Aspects of Work with Computers. EHAWC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5624. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02731-4_14

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