Breaks are good for your health

Giving workers the choice to take regular breaks and to control the speed of their work is the best way to prevent office strain injuries, new research has confirmed.

Danish researchers said that employers should allow for physical variation of tasks, so that workers do not work at their computers all day.

B Juul-Kristensen and C Jensen, "Self-reported workplace related ergonomic conditions as prognostic factors for musculoskeletal symptoms", Occupational and Environmental Medicine, vol 62, pages 188-194