all of the desks, chairs, screens, keyboards, and so on. When the staff come back
to work on Monday morning, their environment has changed utterly. The mistake
made by many of these organizations is to expect their staff to resume working as
if nothing had happened. Even when the environment has been changed as a means
of improvement, employees need to be given an acclimatization period to get used
to the changes. From the body’s perspective, everything has changed. The postures
adopted are likely to be different, the support offered by the chair is likely to be
different, the feel of the keyboard will be different. Sudden changes like these without
a reduction in the pace of work are often associated with the sudden onset of
symptoms of upper limb disorders, typically pain, tingling and swelling in the arms
and hands.