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I’m still slouching though

November 25, 2008 in Uncategorized by Phil | No comments

I thought I’d take the opportunity of my first post to quickly outline and wholeheartedly endorse our employee health scheme.

Barry has personal experience of the problems caused and exacerbated by computer terminal use, and decided to bring in an expert to advise us on our desk ergonomics, posture etc. Before we knew it we had all signed up for a weekly one hour training session at the nearest park. I was envisioning some stretches and some hippy ‘how-to-sit’ lessons, but what we ended up with was pretty much a personal training session like you’d find at a gym, but with emphasis on exercises and stretches relevant to our jobs. And the best bit is that it’s actually quite fun (even after a couple of months).

The good points:

  1. Becoming healthier
  2. Feeling healthier (not necesarily the same as point 1)
  3. Informal team bonding
  4. Friday wind-down (a.k.a. guilt-free slacking off)
  5. Hopefully fewer long-term health issues, rsi, sick days etc…

The bad points:

  1. Barry has to pay

So as you can see it’s 100% good news, there’s absolutely no down-side at all!

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