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BOSS Today #48 SPECIAL REPORT

HOW TO BE PRODUCTIVE

BOSS Today looks at how the rapid shift to home working is providing opportunities for the OP industry.

s the COVID-19 crisis has developed, been about dealing with the basics to
Ait has quickly become clear that start with and providing advice to make
businesses of all sizes have now rapidly sure that people are aware of how they
switched all or part of their workforce should be working, such as keeping good
to home working. There is now a ‘new posture, remembering to move around
normal’, and the office products industry, and taking regular breaks in between all
having been at the heart of this change, the screen work and Zoom meetings.’’
now has the opportunity to develop its Although employers have a duty of
role as the midwife to this nationwide care to protect their employees wherever “We saw an immediate rush
transition. their predominant workplace is, Shipley
Louise Shipley, who looks after the initially saw “a prevalence of discomfort for ergonomic accessories
workspace management, ergonomics and pain”, because many people had as computer-users looked
and furniture categories for Fellowes UK, not been properly equipped to work at to achieve a comfortable
found that the company’s biggest growth home: “We saw an immediate rush for
areas have been in products to equip ergonomic accessories as computer-users viewing position”
people with a healthy working space in a looked to achieve a comfortable viewing Louise Shipley, Fellowes UK
variety of home locations – from kitchen position to reduce neck ache and eye
tables to purpose-built home offices. “It’s strain, with sales of laptop risers and

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