TY - GEN
T1 - Ergonomics Assessment for Filipino Office Employees Working from Home due to Covid19
AU - Praga, Dhan Joseph P.
AU - Prasetyo, Yogi Tri
AU - Nadlifatin, Reny
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/9/27
Y1 - 2021/9/27
N2 - Covid19 pandemic enforced companies to allow office employees to work from home. Many of them were provided only laptop, in where individuals need to setup their own work environments. As a result, many of them encounter musculoskeletal discomfort while working. Based on 30 participants of the assessment using CMDQ (Cornell Musculoskeletal Disorder Questionnaire) and RULA (Rapid Upper Limb Assessment). Most discomfort score were from Lower back with 11.17%, Neck with 10.62%, Upper Back with 9.49%, and Wrist (Right) with 8.11%. While in hands symptoms the discomfort is mostly in Area F (lower palm) with 271 (35.59%), Area A (index, middle, and ring) with 179.5 (23.57%), and Area D (upper palm) with 87 (11.42%). In RULA there are also 10% of the participants that requires implementation of change in their posture. If working from home will continue, office employees and management needs to be aware of the physical ergonomics to lessen the musculoskeletal disorder (MDS) and improve the posture.
AB - Covid19 pandemic enforced companies to allow office employees to work from home. Many of them were provided only laptop, in where individuals need to setup their own work environments. As a result, many of them encounter musculoskeletal discomfort while working. Based on 30 participants of the assessment using CMDQ (Cornell Musculoskeletal Disorder Questionnaire) and RULA (Rapid Upper Limb Assessment). Most discomfort score were from Lower back with 11.17%, Neck with 10.62%, Upper Back with 9.49%, and Wrist (Right) with 8.11%. While in hands symptoms the discomfort is mostly in Area F (lower palm) with 271 (35.59%), Area A (index, middle, and ring) with 179.5 (23.57%), and Area D (upper palm) with 87 (11.42%). In RULA there are also 10% of the participants that requires implementation of change in their posture. If working from home will continue, office employees and management needs to be aware of the physical ergonomics to lessen the musculoskeletal disorder (MDS) and improve the posture.
KW - Covid19
KW - musculoskeletal discomfort
KW - office employees
KW - physical ergonomics
KW - work from home
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123043888&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3494583.3494588
DO - 10.1145/3494583.3494588
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85123043888
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 293
EP - 299
BT - ICIBE 2021 - 2021 7th International Conference on Industrial and Business Engineering
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 7th International Conference on Industrial and Business Engineering, ICIBE 2021
Y2 - 27 September 2021 through 29 September 2021
ER -