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Everyday life of office worker

Mail and phone - 2-3 hours a day

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Most of employees, coming to work, at once pour to themselves a coffee cup, turn on the computer and check incoming mail and other messages. On average, such occupation occupies about half an hour. During the day employees check letters approximately once in an hour. And if work depends on mail, then the number of checks in a day can reach 40 times! On telephone negotiations office worker spends 4-27% of operating time.

Reaction of an organism

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Reading messages and answers to them demands constant switching of attention from the main work. It creates additional nervous tension and leads to bystry getting tired. Many workers note that they have feeling of alarm, opening a mailbox or being going to make a business call. All this promotes emergence of muscular spasms, a headache and bystry fatigue.

What to do?

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If there is such opportunity, try to check mail and to make calls how the main part of work will be made. It will promote bigger productivity and will reduce tension in the course of work. You will feel more often satisfaction from the performed work that will allow to reduce stress level.

Совещания и планерки - 2,5 часа в неделю

Meetings and planning meetings - 2,5 hours a week

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About 20% of operating time leave on various meetings and planning meetings. At the same time a half of the interviewed employees consider that it is absolutely unnecessary occupation which only takes away time. Frequent meetings distract from work, many drives in a dream, and some do not listen to anything at all, speaking by phone. Many employees noted that they after such planning meetings feel tired, at them desire to work vanishes.

Reaction of an organism

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It is easy to explain feeling of fatigue after the meetings with the strengthened intellectual loading, and also an ordinary hypoxia, a large number of people gathers in one room. Even if at an office there is a conditioner, he only drives air around, and all carbon dioxide remains indoors. Lack of oxygen promotes that in 20-30 minutes the fatigue appears and working capacity decreases.

What to do?

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Not to avoid meetings in working process. It is necessary to try to air more often rooms, and to make meetings the shortest and constructive. In negotiation it is possible to put houseplants. The beautiful palm tree and ficuses not only will add oxygen, but also will create the cozy and pleasant atmosphere.

Smoke breaks and having a snack

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Coffee pauses use most of employees for discussion of working and non-working questions. Smoke breaks – an integral part of life of office workers. Though recently more and more people prefer to get rid of this addiction, 14% of office workers spend for it from 20 minutes to an hour. On having a snack about 30-60 minutes of operating time leave. The most popular products – rolls, cookies and cakes.

Reaction of an organism

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All know about harm of smoking, and here having a snack – it is rather the process weakening and encouraging. However all favourite sweets and rolls significantly increase risk of development of diabetes and obesity, especially during the sitting work. Also it concerns not only women, but also men.

What to do?

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Specialists advise everyone half an hour to rise from a chair and to make small walks. It helps to reduce sugar level in blood. Of course, it is necessary to limit as much as possible consumption of the refined sweets, and to replace rolls with fruit and vegetables. Put on a desktop a jar with vitamins and accept them daily.

Работа за компьютером - 4-6 часов в день

Work at the computer - 4-6 hours a day

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The state of health in general depends on ergonomics and convenience of a workplace. Most of computer workers stiffen in one pose for a long time: the back is hunched, the look is concentrated on the monitor, the head is pulled in in shoulders. It is a harmful and not natural pose, especially if to spend in it several hours in a row.

Reaction of an organism

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Whether it is worth being surprised that at the wrong position of a body constantly flow hands, the neck and a back, eyes test excessive tension. Internals are in the squeezed situation. All this promotes development of scoliosis, varicosity, endocrine diseases, and also deterioration in digestion.

What to do?

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The best exit will to learn sit in the pianist's pose: a back equal, hands are strictly on the keyboard. The monitor has to be directly before eyes that there was no need to raise the head up or to incline down. Everyone half an hour it is worth changing a little position of a body, to do simple exercises for eyes.

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