Firms 'recognising' RSI increase
Commercial insurance
1st December 2008
Employees who spend most of their working day at their office desk are more prone to afflictions such as back pain and repetitive strain injury (RSI), it has been claimed.
Karl Monahan, business development manager for the On Site Massage Company, claims more and more employers are responding to such problems, as well as other injuries such as so-called 'Blackberry thumb' and 'mouse elbow'.
Mr Monahan commented: "With computers getting smaller and people spending more time at their desks they are becoming more susceptible to things like this.
"Companies are now starting to realise. They are slowly starting to do things about it and they're moving in the right direction."
According to Mercer's Pan-European report on health benefits, an average 5.3 per cent of a firm's total payroll was spent on health benefits for staff in 2007.
Just over half (51 per cent) of companies reported a rise in the average cost of providing health benefits to their employees, the report also found.
