Back Info A step by step guide to setting up your workstation Setting up your workstation correctly only takes a few minutes, and should eliminate many of the pains or discomfort whilst sitting at a workstation. For an interactive assessment of your office, and guidelines on how it can be improved, fill in our interactive questionnaire. Adjust your chair height so that when you put your fingers on the middle row of the keyboard your forearms and hands are horizontal, with no angle at the wrist. Don't kid yourself, get a colleague to look from the side.
Many people have their chair too high.
Adjust your chair to this position now. If the undersides of your thighs are now compressed, you need either a footrest or a lower desk. Footrests can be bought, or made from a box, board, cushion or a piece of stiff foam. Many people set the back support too low. Sit very upright.