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Home Sweet … Ergonomic Workspace. Why wellbeing and comfort matters when you work from home

Workplace Insight

Just because you work from home, doesn’t mean things are different when it comes to your wellbeing. Many of these obligations are laid out in the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) and include the need to supply appropriate equipment, carry out risk assessments, offer training and generally provide a safe working environment.

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Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 10 August, 2010 Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys I am on vacation and on my home computer I do not have a mouse so rely on keyboard shortcut keys, which reminded me again how helpful they are and how they are a big timesaver rather than reaching for the mouse all the time.

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Christoph Fleischmann of Arthur | Bridging the Hybrid Work Divide with Mixed Reality

Allwork

And these experiences might be something very consumer oriented, like a game or a social experience or a concert, more very business oriented, like a training simulation or a convention or a business meeting in my company. Because we don’t have to be in the best part of town anymore because we can be anywhere, we want.

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Training On-line

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 January, 2009 Training On-line Recently someone asked me a question about training on-line so I thought I would share the answer in a post. I use a place based in Toronto, Canada called Last Minute Training. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m. (New

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6 Ways to Alleviate Ergonomic-Related Strain

Ian's Messy Desk

The keyboard should usually be at a low height, near the height of your elbows and the mouse should be right next to the keyboard. Try different keyboards and mice – there are many designs on the market. There is a good article on Ergonomic s, as it relates to safe computer use, from the Mechanical Engineering Department at U.C.

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Must Have Gadgets for the Modern Entrepreneur

The Small Business Blog

If you’re leading the meeting you can take your notes in with you and if you need to make notes during the proceedings you won’t need to annoy your colleagues by tapping on a laptop keyboard. Trains, hotels and other public places often promise Wifi connectivity these days but in reality you may not get what you expect.

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6 Reasons Why Your Business Should be Paperless

Eco-Office Gals

If you’re a PC user, all you have to do is press the “Start” menu button—the one with the Microsoft logo—on your keyboard, type in the file name, and click the file you’re looking for. Did you know that it takes around 24 trees to produce one ton of paper? You only need a few seconds to find an electronic file.

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