Microbreaks & Stretching

Thanks to the well-understood science of Applied Behavioral Analysis, ErgoSuite Enterprise is a unique time-proven empowering tool for employees to use as a coach in practicing solid office ergonomics.

Human beings cannot learn and adopt a new long-term behavior just from watching a training video or otherwise just being told to do so.  Instead, we only learn to attain such behaviors through repetitive positive reinforcement often with the aid of select simple tools.

Music students and practitioners will easily recognize this well-known rhythmic behavior conditioning tool.  The Metronome has been successfully used and found effective since 1815.

Applied Behavioral Analysis is a 100-year-old science that involves using well-established modern behavioral learning theory to modify behaviors. 

Reinforcement is the most important principle of behavior and a key element of most behavior change programs.  It is the process by which behavior is strengthened, if a behavior is followed closely in time by a stimulus and this results in an increase in the future frequency of that behavior. The addition of a stimulus following an event that serves as a reinforcer is termed positive reinforcement.

ErgoSuite Enterprise has been very carefully designed specifically with these critical facts in mind.

Through ErgoSuite's solid success at clients for almost 17 years, this unique technology has proven itself year after year.
 

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Taking Brief Recovery Breaks is a Desired Operant Behavior 

An Operant Behavior is one which is selected for its consequences.  It's well-established that the successful conditioning of operant behavior is the direct result of positive reinforcement or punishment. 
 

Behavior modification driven by punishment is not the way of successful organizations.

Since we're not seeking to increase employee stress through punishment, we can successfully accomplish our objectives with positive reinforcement.  This is Operant Conditioning.

Decades of research has clearly established that desirable behaviors such as knowledge-worker pacing are only learned through repetitive positive reinforcement.
 

Clear Objective Data, Your Data.

Why is there such a distinct statistically significant inverse correlation between Fatigue and Recovery Break Utilization for 95% of the population? 

* Actual Employee Data

What does this mean for productivity and risk mitigation?  It means you can measurably increase comfort and productivity "while" reducing fatigue, healthcare utilization and injuries - all from one important step.

You can implement, with nominal effort, a Best Practice which significantly mitigates risk and also significantly improves productivity.  Our clients have.

To truly manage anything, you must measure it.
 

Stretching

There are many orthopedically designed stretches built into ErgoSuite Enterprise utilizing live coaches who demonstrate and lead the stretches on the screen. They are designed to be followed in real time and last from 35 seconds to one minute.

These stretches often help relieve many of the common symptoms employees may have from using the computer without well-timed brief recovery breaks.
 

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