How comfortable are you at your workstation? Is it easy to spend eight hours at your desk, or do you ache at the end of the day? Ergonomics is about making your office more comfortable and productive. Here are some tips and tools that can improve your comfort and increase your productivity:

Adjust your chair. Ergonomic typing posture is focused on minimizing the movement and work required on your muscles. Good posture prevents strained muscles and a sore back. And a good ergonomic chair is the best foundation for maintaining good posture for long periods of time. Make your feet rest firmly on the ground, and ensure that your lower back has sufficient support. If needed, you can add portable lumbar support. Finally, make sure your arm rests out of the way to allow free arm movement while you type.

Upgrade to an ergonomic keyboard. Ergonomic keyboards are specifically designed to support good hand position, making your typing more comfortable and efficient. When looking at a new keyboard, try several different designs to fine one that fits, and give yourself a few weeks to determine if it is really the best keyboard for you.

Move your keyboard. Add an adjustable keyboard tray to your desk to provide fast, easy adjustment of your keyboard. While typing, your keyboard should be only an inch or two above your lap, just below the height of your elbows. When adjusted correctly, your shoulders, arms and hands should feel relaxed and you should be able to easily reach the top keys without stretching or reaching. 

Try a document holder. Looking back and forth between your screen and a document creates pain in your neck and shoulders. It also can strain your eyes to continually refocus, resulting in headaches. A document holder can help relieve all this pain and can actually increase your productivity. Place the document holder immediately next to your monitor and at approximately the same distance from your eyes.

Try these tips to improve your work space ergonomics. Adjusting your ergonomic chair and adding ergonomic tools, such as a keyboard tray, can help improve your comfort and increase you productivity.

Do you sit, uncomfortably, at your desk all day? Even if you are fine in the morning, most office workers find themselves sore and tired by the end of the day. Here are some tips to help you create a more comfortable, productive workstation.

• Move your keyboard. Add an adjustable keyboard tray to your desk to provide fast, easy adjustment of your keyboard. Good hand and arm posture while typing is vital to your comfort and productivity and can protect your wrists from pain and injury. For best posture, your keyboard should be one to two inches above your lap, just below the height of your elbows. When adjusted correctly, your  shoulders, arms and hands should feel relaxed and you should be able to easily reach the top keys without stretching or reaching. 
• Adjust your monitor height. Sore shoulders and neck muscles, and frequent work-induced headaches are too often the result of poorly placed computer screens. If you ever look up or down, or even to the side, to properly view your screen, you are in need of a monitor adjustment. Your computer screen should be  directly in front of you, at eye level.  A monitor riser is easy to install and will provide the additional height for a more comfortable view.
• Use a document holder. A document holder can relieve neck and shoulder pain, ease eye strain, and even increase your productivity. You no longer have to continuously look back and forth from your monitor, losing your place, slowing down your typing, overworking your neck and straining your eyes. Place the document holder as close as you can to your monitor, and make sure it is approximately the same distance from your eyes.
• Put on a phone headset. It is often frustrating to sit holding a phone receiver, but cradling the handset between your shoulder and ear in to free your hands will quickly stain your shoulder and neck muscles. Try using a headset for your phone to free your hands and make your phone calls more comfortable.

These adjustment may seem simple, but they can be extremely important to improve your workstation. It is painless to add a  document holder or a keyboard tray, but these small changes can give you a more comfortable, pain-free work environment.