Part of nature and no photos of the holiday: what you need for the perfect workplace

Properly organized space - one of the main conditions for a healthy productivity. You may be aware that an uncomfortable chair or insufficient lighting interferes with work, but it does not pay attention to other factors - less obvious but no less important - which also affect your productivity.

There is a science that studies the organization of the human working spaces to enhance productivity - ergonomics. If you think it is about how to arrange the furniture in the office, you are not quite right. Ergonomics includes the right, from the point of view of health, planning, well thought-out in detail, as well as aesthetics. And learn to avoid factors that lead to the fact that you do not realize their professional potential.

Denote what should pay attention to if you want to improve your workplace, we practice and look at life through the prism of the fundamental ergonomic principles.

Maximum functionality

Workplace as a living space: the smaller the space, the more ingenuity and imagination needed to make it successfully functioned.

1. Analyze the "working area" table

Remember that the area coverage of the human hand is 30-40 cm. The remaining surface of the table to which you can not reach, is not actually used. So think about the necessary things that you are in close proximity, and remove the ones that you almost do not use.

What do you use often - a notebook, a calculator - keep at hand. If you notice that you often get up to reach some kind of object, move it closer to him.

2. Remove everything that is not related to the work

We recommend not to put dozens of photo frames on the table or souvenirs from travels - let fond memories remain for outside the working area, otherwise the eyes will cling to the distractions and time will be less effective.

3. Divide the workspace into zones

If your work is centered between the computer and the papers, it is reasonable to install separate computer desk and work - this method is called panoramic. Between the two areas you should be easy to navigate.

proper lighting

most healthy lighting - it is daylight. But in the Russian reality to work in daylight can be only a few hours a day, and then, provided that the depth of your cabinet does not exceed 6 meters.

1. Choose the right color

Pay attention to the color of light bulbs. In cloudy weather, better to give preference to the warm the yellow light, in a sleepy morning will help to cheer up cold and bright light.

By the way, it is necessary to abandon the fluorescent lamps and halogen selected: their light is much less tired eyes.

2. Check that there are not dull and not too bright

Artificial lighting should be no little or too much - if you look on the bright spotlight, you can pretty quickly make headache. Therefore, we advise to choose the right bulb. May best - distribute the lighting in zones: overhead lights, table and floor.

3. Do not forget the table lamp

We suggested to choose one in which the controller is mounted on the power level of light and height. And still recall the golden rule of a first grader: the light from the desk lamp should fall from above and to the left (for left - top and right). Otherwise, from your hands on the workspace drop shadow, you change the position of the body and to overtax his sight.

Proper handling techniques

Today it is hard to imagine a workplace without any desktop or laptop computer, and workflows - without important gadgets. We are in contact with the screen every day, but often forget important rules "Dialogue" with them.

1. Check compliance with the three distances

• The monitor screen (more precisely, its upper part) desktop computer should be at eye level, not above or below.
• The distance from the eyes to the monitor - 60-70 cm.
• The keyboard should be at a distance of 10-15 cm from the edge of the table. Working on a computer, try to keep your hands on one line with the elbows.

2. Limit the time of smartphone usage

Let's face it: most of us during the working day are diverted to the mobile notifications that are not related to operational issues.

PollHow Much Time Workers Spend on Cell PhonesConducted by OfficeTeam, showed that the average office worker spends about five hours a week on the message to family and friends, personal email and other non-working times.

Distracted by notifications stream, we do not concentrate on the affairs of workers or waste time, which is necessary in any case, the return - probably at night, stopping at the end of the day. In other words, stealing time from work, we actually kradom it at home.

Highlight a specific time - for example, lunch time - when you are ready to answer all extraneous matters.

Comfortable for you to ecosystem and climate

Workspace - this is your mikroplaneta on which you create a microclimate. Work by the window overlooking the river, meadow and mountain peaks are much nicer than in a metropolis, but in Anyway it is useful to add to the workspace elements of nature, such as a small indoor plant. By the way, most unpretentious of them - philodendron, Spathiphyllum, Dracaena, croton and petunia.

1. Watch the temperature and humidity

If you live more comfortably (or best guess) in a cool, going on hiatus, adjust air conditioner temperatures below the usual or open window. Just be sure that in the immediate vicinity is not only heat-loving employee.

Adjust the humidity level: optimally if it is equal to 40-50%. And do not forget during the workday regularly aired.

2. Make sure that nobody stops you

If you are working in outdoors, Try to stay away from the crowds: the water cooler, coffee machine or board with stickers / ads.

3. Organize personal space

Workplace successfully integrated into the office in the event that you are comfortable to communicate with colleagues, but you feel that you have your space. If it is not, or want it today, you worry less during the day, put on the table a beautiful flower, or any other object that is visually separated you from the office world.

4. Do not hesitate to demand that the management of "moving"

If the old workplace was oppressing you, explain to his superiorsThat a change of scenery you need to stay productive.