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Work from Home in Comfort & Safety

In the early 1970s, technology was very much about linking satellite offices to downtown mainframes by dumb terminals using telephone lines as a network bridge. However with the massive ongoing decrease in cost and increase in performance and usability of personal computers forged the way to decentralize, allowing the relocation of the working office to ones home. By the early 1980s, workers were able to connect to the company mainframe using personal computers and terminal emulation.

With even further significant advancement in technology and employers adapting to more flexible working, it is expected that around 30% of us over the coming years will work from home in some way with broadband Internet connections become more commonplace and now having enough bandwidth at home to use tools to link their home office to their corporate intranet and internal phone networks. Long distance working is facilitated by such tools as groupware, virtual private networks, conference calling, video conferencing, and Voice over IP (VOIP). It can be efficient and useful for companies as it allows staff and workers to communicate over a large distance, saving significant amounts of travel time and cost. Today, workers carry laptop PCs around which they can use both at the office and at home (and almost anywhere else). The rise of cloud computing technology and Wi-Fi availability has enabled access to remote servers via a combination of portable hardware.

Ensuring you are proficiently set up to work from home is vital which means having the essential ergonomic accessories to aid your productivity and prevent common complaints such as RSI, back, shoulder or neck pain. So having an environment which is safe and comfortable and a desk mounted monitor arm will give you the flexibility to adjust your computer to fit your own individual requirements. These arms allow the height of the computer screen to be easily adjusted so you can find the most comfortable position to view the screen to reduce complaints such as eye strain and headaches.

There are many advantages to working from home from improving your work-life balance to reducing your carbon footprint and fuel usage. It is predicted that it can free up the equivalent of 15 to 25 workdays a year-time they would have otherwise spent commuting, and could save between £3k and £10k per year in travel and work-related costs.

Due to CMD Ltd ongoing success, we have launched Your SoHo, an online retail arm focusing on the Small Office, Home Office applications.  If you are looking to kit out your home or small office, be sure to visit for leading office power, ergonomic solutions and cable management products.