Why is "ergonomics" so important when purchasing office workstations?

eOffice Innovations™ focuses on the "Workplace Musculoskeletal Disorders" (WMSD) caused by Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) associated with working in the office and the over use of computers (greater than 2 hours a day.).

WMSDs can cause severe and debilitating symptoms such as pain, numbness, and tingling; reduced worker productivity; lost time from work; temporary or permanent disability; inability to perform job tasks; and an increase in workers compensation costs.

Purchasing ergonomic equipment and furniture is only the first step. Installing it properly, adjusting it to the employee using it, and most importantly, educating the employee and supervisors how to use it properly are critical steps that are often over looked - resulting in continued suffering, insurance and civil claims, and absenteeism.

Can you manage all of our company's ergonomic and accommodation requests (OSHA and L&I).

eOffice Innovations™ have 25 years of experience performing this type of work. As part of your service agreement, all aspects of your company's WMSD and RSI reduction plans and programs can be managed by our company. We store all sensitive employee data (HIPPA Standards), programs, plans and inventory on secure servers located away from your building (disaster recovery), and provide you with reports that make $ense. All reporting to OSHA, L&I, and your insurance company is automated.

These work programs are highly customizable and will be discussed at your first consultation.

What can my company expect to save by hiring eOffice Innovations™ ?

All companies are different - some even have very large HR Departments however, the law states that if you employ more than 11 people, you are required to file yearly reports.

To accomplish this task even marginally (the minimum expected) an HR Manager, IT Manager, PC Coordinator, Procurement Staff, and carpenter/installers time is required. The timing of these events is very unpredictable and costly if not coordinated properly.

Programs and campaigns that "should" be taking place in your company may not be, or they are not returning the value of the investments made to reduce them.

The sad truth about WMSD's is that most of the time employees don't realize they are being injured until it is too late. Visit WMSD's for more information.

What eOffice Innovations™ does is outsource those resources for your company only when needed. You need not hire additional staff to accomplish these tasks - saving you money!

Check out this article on "Preventive ergonomic strategies demonstrate substantial cost benefit for small to mid-size employers" for more in depth studies on ROI and RSI intervention.

Does eOffice Innovations™ provide employee ergonomic training and seminars?

Yes! Training is an integral part of the services we provide. Without training, the equipment purchased would be of little value to you. Also, our human factor practitioners are available for seminars on WMSDs and Repetitive Strain Injury prevention for your location. If your company would like to have one of our professionals give a presentation to your general staff contact us via email or call 206-842-4840.

Will eOffice Innovations™ set up my telecommuting employees?

This task is one of the most difficult challenges your company's technology staff will face in the near future - one which you may find them recommending against as it expands their service area coverage by a large factor. It is amazingly difficult to handle the work orders and installation requests at growing company, but to expand that to a telecommuter's home, which in some cases are over an hour away is the breaking point of their abilities. The effect can only be measured by the number of unhappy system users that have little to no support - and injured ones to boot. I don't have to mention the effect on the company's bottom line.

Let eOffice Innovations™ coordinate this work for you. We install pre-configured PC workstation and laptop systems that are basically "one size fits all" and utilize local service companies to support them. Your IT Staff can focus on the business of handling day to day operations at your company's headquarters vs. driving all over the region with expensive vehicles.