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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Thursday, September 27, 2007 ::
Does your desk make you sick? - Health24.com, South Africa
Thus after a lifetime of work, you could proudly tell your grandchildren that front left headlight of every Leyland Rickety had your meticulously applied soldering in it, a job since delegated to a welding robot that never gets eyestrain and doesn’t feel the need to join a union.
New syndrome emerging
But apart from boredom and a hankering to chuck in the job and sell CDs at a fleamarket for a living, there’s a new syndrome emerging in office drones. So far it’s only been identified at one corporation, NEC-Mitsubishi, but given that the working conditions are similar for millions around the world, it gets you wondering how widespread it is.
It’s called Irritable Desk Syndrome and its causes are your basic description of the working day of anyone who uses a desk, computer terminal and telephone each day: poor posture, cluttered desk and long working hours.------------------------------------------- posted 6:50 AM :: reference link ::
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