![]() ![]() Slouching in front of a screen for over 40 hours a week is invariably going to take its toll. ![]() The human body was never built to stay immobile for long stretches of time. That exposure has also led to the rapid deterioration of eyesight and visual clarity. It is a complicated condition that manifests itself in the form of blurred vision, double vision, acute headaches and severe eye-irritation owing to dryness. Prolonged exposure to a computer screen has led to a rapid increase in an unusual visual-based disorder known as Computer Vision Syndrome or CVS. More than that, you spend hours in front of a computer screen, typing away to no seeming end, enough to cause some serious health issues some of which, are listed below: When it comes to your health, the office space is a Trojan horse- there’s never a guarantee that your desk is devoid of germs or other microbes, given the number of people in the office daily. But this growth isn’t just related to saving time telecommuting is the definitive answer to burn-outs and excessive exhaustion that ultimately can cause major health risks. The picture we have in front of us is one that foretells only growth. 52% of the respondents said they felt more comfortable working from home. 75% of the total number of respondents to a survey reported that the main reason behind their support for telecommuting is the fact that it allows them to be more productive. In the US, there is overwhelming popular support for telecommuting. 88% of India’s workforce says they prefer working from home, with the youth making up a huge chunk of this population. Whether you are working from a coffee shop or your home telecommuting removes the bothersome obstacle of commuting to the office. The average commute time in India is around 2 hours- that is a lot of stress for anyone to handle. Simply put, telecommuting is the practice of working an office job, just not in the office space- making use of the many modern tools at our disposal such as video calls, cloud storage, online collaboration tools, and so on. Though telecommuting is not a recent phenomenon, it has had its biggest spike quite recently. The work culture itself has evolved post-COVID. They started breaking into the world of vlogging and streaming. Due to travel restrictions and the lockdown imposition that occurred all across the world, entertainers were forced to work from home. An excellent example is the entertainment industry which banked so much upon physical presence before 2020. We have taken the pandemic in our stride and every industry is finding a way to stay afloat and innovate. Some of these have crippled and stunted the way we lead our lives- but we humans are resourceful, and adaptability is what has kept us existing and constantly evolving for hundreds of thousands of years. COVID-19 has catalyzed an unprecedented storm of change in every aspect of our lives and in every industry imaginable. ![]()
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