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Assessment in Office Work and Productivity

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It is necessary to adopt specific positions to perform a work activity for long periods of time; as sitting posture. This condition increases the risk of developing musculoskeletal pathologies such as lumbago. The aim of this paper was to analyze the factors that originate this pathology using a literature review about office work and low back pain, the impact on productivity and describe the association of office work and productivity. This review aims at obtaining relevant articles, which show the relationship between office work in prolonged sitting posture and its effect on work productivity. The review found specific methodologies for each type of office activities and the considerations to take into account for this evaluation shown the necessity to pursue studies that analyses the office activity to find the influence of agents that affect the perception of lumbago, and its incidence on the efficiency of office work activities.

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  1. Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga Santander, 680002, Colombia

    Jenny Rodríguez-García & Fernanda Maradei

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Rodríguez-García, J., Maradei, F. (2018). Assessment in Office Work and Productivity. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 602. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60825-9_17

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