Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joe Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge.

Today we're talking about ergonomics. That's kind of the topic of what we're saying here and

discussing today and if you notice that a lot of businesses, some schools probably

more higher education and you know workplaces are really designing spaces these days for

optimize performance. You know obviously if you're still going to an office because we live in a virtual world these days you may work from home but if you have a career and you go to an office

You may have noticed if it's more modern if they have

Tendencies to want to design things for optimal productivity, for employees to be more happy.

They've got things that offices are doing now, businesses are doing now to make the experience

more productive, more in tune with how human animals function in an environment that...

Is a little unnatural.

Yeah, I mean it's not natural to go and sit in a cubicle or sit a desk for eight hours a day and so you know you just simple stuff like keyboards you know those keyboards

remember those keyboards that came out that had the, they weren't flat.

They were split and they were angled to the side where you would grab the keyboard at like an angle

to reduce the stress on your wrists.

It's ergonomical design. You've got these expensive

chairs now that offices will often incorporate into the employee's

experience which contour to their back and their butt and make it more comfortable to sit at a desk for long hours.

Yeah, a lot of people set on exercise balls now too.

Yeah.

And I think there's been a lot of, I mean mean it's become quite evident that we have a certain amount of

energy physical energy that we can allocate to certain tasks and if we design those things with you know ergonomics the natural

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