Minor health and safety quirk
I think I’ve found a bug in the health and safety rules.
These rules always say that you should adjust your working environment so that the top of your monitor is level with your eyes. Which I’d been doing – but I’d also been getting back pains.
What I hadn’t done is ensure that the top of the monitor is level with my eyes when my back is straight. So, my adjustments had involved altering the level of my monitor, but only to the level of my eyes when I was slumped in a presumably-unhealthy posture.
Arguably, since I wanted to believe that my monitor was at the correct level, I’d been slumping in order to comply with the rules. Only at a subconscious level though!
I have now put my monitor about 10 inches higher, which is definitely too far up, but I’ll see what effects it has and hopefully find a happy medium. I’m certainly finding my back is straighter – I am having to look up very high to see anything at all!