Camera off, face mask on!!

Work from home is the silver lining of COVID era and God bless the offices that still comply to hybrid models. You wake up 15 minutes before the first call, sit In pyjamas and Boom!. Your skin is better avoiding all that pollution, nobody judges you have barbie themed sipper as an adult and whether you’re from Bangalore or Mumbai, everyone in the traffic blesses you to not step put.

The only thing that goes off is all that aches and pains (specially the neck and back) in your body because of bad posture. Some offices overseas actually sent work from home setup to employees as a part of hybrid model but that’s unheard of in India. And speaking about Indians, we have a classic conditioning to not care about the posture, until a body part cries in pain for help.

So, in this edition, we have in the store for you Doctor-Prescribed-Denkali-Inspired work from home tips to avoid body aches:

1. 1. Move it, Move it, Move it: If you’re an employee that needs to be on a lot of calls, do it while walking around. Break that monotony to water your home plants, fill your bottle or just counting your home tiles. Moving around will relieve your body out of fatigue and the stress collected in your disc area. If you’re a smart space planner, we are guessing you’d be a fan of foldable furniture as your go-to home office setup. This gives you enough and more space to create a little walkway right in your living room or bedroom.

   *writer of this pieces takes a break and gets back to working*

   2. The bed is ONLY where you sleep: We’ve all heard “circle back” work calls that can cure insomnia but working from bed, even scientifically. Since you’re sitting on an uneven surface, aloof of the correct height of the laptop and *turns on mind reader mode* most likely with a curved spine, the pain is sure to come. Instead, create an aesthetic workspace that makes you feel even more productive. This can include contemporary or classic working from home desk, easily available online.
   3. Ok fine, SOMETIMES you can work from bed, but…: Some days when you need rest, period pain, football injured leg or worse, both. Try maintaining a habit of at least using a desk to correct posture. You can go for convenient and handy portable folding tables. If you’re bed is one of those sucks you in type, go for a wheeled laptop table that you can slide out for a “power nap” anytime.
   4. “WFH adult to laptop: MY EYES ARE UP HERE”: This has to be the most common problem thanks to the generation of living in different screen sizes. One tends to forget the importance of having laptop at eye level. When you look down at a screen, it increases the angle between your eyes and the screen, leading to more focused eye muscles and potential eye fatigue. Get your hands (and eyes) on a height adjustable table to be able to switch between a mac setup for work or tablet for your journaling. When your work from home becomes watch from home, binge on those shows with the same table adjusted to comfort height.
   5. Organise that Chaos: When your desk is cluttered and disorganized (much like life), it reduces the available workspace. This limitation can lead to poor ergonomic setups, like having insufficient space for a proper keyboard and mouse placement or placing your laptop or monitor in awkward positions that strain your neck and shoulders. If you’re still in the planning stage of your work from home setup, look for a table for work from home setup that gives you storage. GOR FORBID, if tomorrow the hybrid model does stop. You can easily use it as a TV unit with all that space for your remotes and PlayStation accessories.

   The last one, need not a pointer, is to regularly exercise. Now that you saved time on travelling and stops for coffee, you can spend on your yoga mat. This can relieve the aches and pains of the constant sitting all da.
   

   That’s it! We, at Denkali got you covered!

   A well-planned home office desk is good for those “morning schedule reels” and definitely better for your posture 😊

   Let the stress on your WFH days be only about choosing between yoga pants and sweatpants.