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The innovative, ergonomic RollerMouse sits in front of a keyboard and allows users to stay in the optimal work zone with relaxed hands and a neutral wrist posture.
Investing in your staff’s health at work pays off With a Scandinavian approach to design and workplace welfare, Contour Design’s revolutionary ergonomic products have become hugely popular across Europe and the United States. But when it comes to investing in ergonomics and wellbeing at work, employers around the world still have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia.
course not everyone gets these injuries. But if you spend more than four hours by a computer a day, you will at some point get problems with either your arm or your neck.”
By Sanne Wass | Photos: Contour Design
As the computer has become a central part of many people’s everyday life, so have problems with repetitive strain injuries, mouse arm and other computer usage-related pain. “When I visit companies, they tell me it’s becoming a real problem – that their employees go to doctors, physiotherapists and chiropractors, and take sick leave for several weeks, because of repetitive strain injuries,” explains Kenneth Schach, Contour Design’s business unit manager for Europe. “Of 50 | Issue 87 | April 2016
Contour Design’s mission is to address these problems by creating evolutionary design that allows people to work safely at their computers. With headquarters in the United States and Denmark, the business is a global leader in the development, research and design of ergonomic computer input devices, including the innovative RollerMouse. “The story of the RollerMouse goes back to the year of 2001 when the company’s founder, Steven Wang, got a bad pain in his shoulder, neck and arm after prolonged work