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How Your Office Can Cater For Larger-bodied Employees And Clients


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When you think about how your office could account for diversity and inclusion, your thoughts probably don’t extend as far as accommodating larger-bodied users of your office.
When surveying its employees, Eloquii found that more ergonomic chairs were on the list of their requests, leading the brand to investigate various seating options.
If your firm is US-based, you already need to heed the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which legally compels employers to make various workplace areas accessible to wheelchairs.
Turn down the temperature – if only slightlyYou might not have realized that a person’s weight can affect how easily they feel warm – or, indeed, cold.
Here, “weight” refers to body mass index (BMI) – and, the higher it is, the sooner the person in question will feel warm, ThoughtCo. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1584369110.3440013/How-Your-Office-Can-Cater-For-Larger-bodied-Employees-And-Clients?ref=audio_experience
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