Wang, Hong;
Yu, Diran;
Zeng, Yu;
Zhou, Tongyu;
Wang, Weixiang;
Liu, Xuan;
Pei, Zhichao;
... Cheshmehzangi, Ali; + view all
(2023)
Quantifying the impacts of posture changes on office worker productivity: an exploratory study using effective computer interactions as a real-time indicator.
BMC Public Health
, 23
, Article 2198. 0.1186/s12889-023-17100-w.
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Abstract
Background: Working in a standing posture is considered to improve musculoskeletal comfort and can help enhance office workers’ performance in the long term. However, there is a lack of a quantitative, real-time measure that reflects on whether office workers can immediately become more concentrated and work more efficiently when they switch to a standing posture. Methods To tackle this problem, this study proposed that the number of effective computer interactions could be used as a real-time indicator to measure the productivity of office workers whose work is primarily computer-based. Using this metric, we conducted an exploratory study to investigate the correlation between posture and productivity changes at a 10-minute resolution for eight participants.// Results: The study found that when allowed to use sit-stand desks to adjust postures, participants chose to switch to standing posture for about 47 min on average once a day; standing work was most frequent between 2:30 − 4:00 pm, followed by 10:30 − 11:30 am, during which time the number of computer interactions also became higher, showing a significant positive correlation. In addition, participants were approximately 6.5% more productive than when they could only work in a sitting posture.// Conclusion: This study revealed that posture changes could have an immediate improvement in productivity.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Quantifying the impacts of posture changes on office worker productivity: an exploratory study using effective computer interactions as a real-time indicator |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 0.1186/s12889-023-17100-w |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17100-w |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2023. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Sit-stand desk, Work productivity, Office workers, Quantitative approach, Computer interaction, Postures |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188005 |
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