Can Dynamic Seating Benefit Productivity?
/Can Dynamic Seating Benefit Productivity?
Ensuring that office environments are safe and healthy for staff is of paramount importance to any company. Many factors can affect the comfort of staff such as a suitable room temperature and ventilation, lighting, the safety of their work space and the quality of the equipment they use. Unfortunately, quite often the very seat they sit on is not considered when looking at how to improve staff comfort and productivity.
It’s just a chair!
A chair isn’t just a chair, for many it is the place they sit for hours at a time, day after day. If a staff member is consistently uncomfortable this will affect their behaviour and will have a huge impact on their mental well-being and in turn can affect their work performance, creativity and ultimately productivity.
A bad posture, such as bending over or slouching at a desk, over time, will cause wear and tear to the spine and ultimately back pain.
The negative effect on productivity
Staff who suffer continual discomfort, eventually will become less motivated lose morale and may become unable to work due to sickness. The cost to the company can include:
Sick pay
Provision of staff cover
Disruption to other team members
Possible health insurance costs
Encourage good posture
Ensuring staff maintain a good posture while seated will mean there is less strain placed on their muscles and ligaments. Spending large amounts of a working day seated in one position is not good for posture and there are some practical measures that could be encouraged to assist, such as:
Stand up while on the telephone
Eat lunch away from the desk
Utilise break out areas to vary where work is completed
Walk and talk with colleagues
How can dynamic seating benefit?
Even encouraging staff to be aware of their posture and to move around through the day, does not deter from the fact that they may still need to sit at a desk for long periods. So how can companies ensure that staff are still making the most of their posture even while seated?
Dynamic seating aids sound posture as the seat position changes and adapts to the bodies movement, like sitting on a gym ball.
Dynamic seating technology supports the lower back while stimulates muscles as the user moves gently in their working environment. The internal air seat moves as they move and supports them through the day, helping to maintain an optimum sitting position.
Through regular and automatic changes in the sitting posture the internal air cushion helps promote health and well being which provides a better performance of daily work.
The positive effect on productivity
Staff who are comfortable and sit with a good posture bring many benefits to a company, such as:
Appearing more confident and happy
Being able to breathe more efficiently
Using back muscles regularly
Decreasing the wear and tear on joints
Reducing the likelihood of developing back injuries
Improving core strength and well being
Our posture plays an extremely important role in our lives generally. Many of the benefits associated with promoting good posture can help both individuals and companies become more productive. Promoting health within the workplace can make companies more appealing to work for and increase an organisation’s image with clients and competitors.
Conclusion
Aircare Systems understand the importance of staff comfort in the workplace and have developed and manufactured world leading, bespoke, dynamic seating technology for a large range of clients globally.
We can help our customers deliver dynamic seating solutions which will encourage users to respond to stimuli to sit upright and maintain an active dynamic posture. We use our ergonomic seating expertise in conjunction with designers to create custom seating solutions for our clients.
To find out more about how we can help you create ergonomic, dynamic seating that will improve your customers productivity, contact us now by clicking here, we look forward to hearing from you.