If your home has suddenly become your office and your work day has slowly

seeped into your personal life, you know the toll it can take on your body and

your ability to do your job well. As the pandemic has many people working from

home for an undetermined amount of time, more people are paying attention to

home office ergonomics not just to get through the work day comfortably but to

protect their overall health. This is NPR's Life Kit. I'm Ruth Tam. On this

episode, Home Office Organomics. Basically, how to work from home without

hurting yourself. Like a lot of people, this pandemic has me working from home.

Because I'm not going back to my office anytime soon, I needed to figure out

how to level up my home office setup. I'm kind of embarrassed to tell you that

the first day that I worked from home during this pandemic, I worked on my

laptop in bed. And I drove that I went from a standing desk at work to a working

bed at home. I guess that it's great that you said that because there's really

nothing wrong for being a little bit indulgent working on the couch working in

your bed. That's fine. The difficulty is now where they're all the time. That's

Mankhonen, an ergonomist at UC Berkeley Center for Occupational and Environmental

Health. I was pleasantly surprised that Megan shame me into sitting up straight

because sorry mom, when has that ever worked? It's been months since I've moved

from my bed to my desk, but I still experience a lot of discomfort and

sometimes pain after long hours working in front of my computer. Meg says

that's pretty common, but that doesn't mean that we all have to put up with it.

Everyone just went home and they just plopped their laptop on top of the table, a

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