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A tribunal has upheld a claim from a computer worker, who began experiencing neck, shoulder, arm and hand pain when her workload increased, that muscle tension arising from workplace stressors was the main cause of her condition.

An Australian study has found a strong psychosocial safety climate (PSC) at an organisational level reduces digital job demands for remote workers and reduces their work-life conflict. It highlights key steps employers can take to increase PSC levels to improve both worker wellbeing and job performance.

Two-thirds of employees who work from home experience mild to severe neck, shoulder and lower back pain, while many self-report poorer performance at home than in the office, a study has found, identifying poor home-office ergonomics as the main contributing factor.

An award-winning fraud analyst has won her compensation appeal after a tribunal found her computer work contributed significantly to her repetitive strain injury, rejecting her employer's claim the injury was caused by gardening.

While open plan offices might enhance employee collaboration and offer lower rental costs, the savings might be completely eroded by higher sickness and absenteeism rates, according to a ground-breaking new analysis by a team of German researchers.

An extensive Japanese study of more than 130,000 workers from 1,400 companies has shown a sharp rise in the incidence of unhealthy weight gain, high blood pressure, hyperglycemia and liver damage following COVID-19 restrictions and work-from-home policies.

Flexible working arrangements that genuinely support health and wellbeing are being offered to the employees of one of Australia's "best places to work" on the terms that most suit them, instead of under a blanket rule, according to the company's director.

• Work-related COVID restrictions softened in another state; and
  
• How to prevent "technostress" and other hybrid work hazards.

A significant proportion of Australian workers believe their postures worsened after they shifted to remote arrangements for the COVID-19 pandemic, showing employers must act as hybrid work becomes a permanent fixture.

A white-collar worker's pre-existing predisposition to knee "instability" did not mean her employment could not be considered a significant cause of the injuries she sustained while rising from her chair at work, a tribunal has found.