The Advantages of Choosing Ergonomic Monitor Mounts

Monitor mounts may seem like a small thing to consider, but choosing the right monitor mounts can have a profound effect on productivity and workflow in your office or your home office. The right ergonomic monitor mounts can make it easier for you to get your work done and promote your health while you’re working. If you’re still working at a computer with a flat screen monitor sitting on your desk or standing on some sort of stand, you may be doing yourself an enormous disservice.

A few years ago, I worked in a busy office, doing administrative functions. About 90 percent of my day was spent working at the computer, with the monitor standing flat on my desktop. Within a few months, I found myself suffering from constant headaches, a sore neck and a dull throb between my shoulder blades that just would not go away. And while I ordered the office supplies and equipment, my office supplies catalog didn’t even have a section of monitor mounts. It wasn’t until the boss brought in a feng shui consultant to rearrange his office that it occurred to me that most of my ills and discomforts could be completely alleviated by changing the position of the monitor using an ergonomic flat screen mount.

The Monday morning after the consultant visited the office, I arrived to find my workspace fundamentally transformed. The desk was turned to take advantage of the light and provide a view of the outdoors through the window next door. The chair was replaced with one that provided lower back support and a higher seat. The biggest change though, was the monitor mount that lifted my flat screen monitor off the desktop and put it at precisely the right height for comfortable viewing.

Positioning the monitor for more comfortable viewing is only one of the many advantages provided by monitor mounts, though. Adjustable monitor mounts allow you to move the screen into the right position when you shift your chair, or turn the screen so that you can share the contents with others in the room – a nice change from having my boss leaning over my shoulder to see what I was trying to show him. It’s a major selling point for monitor mounts in physician’s and dental offices, or in any office where you want to be able to swivel the monitor to allow a client to view your work.

Well-made monitor mounts free up space on the desktop that can be used for other things. In a busy setting where multiple people work side by side or share the same work desk setup, adjustable monitor mounts allow each user to position the monitor for his own preference. Many monitor mounts hold multiple monitors and allow you to arrange them so that you can extend your desktop and view multiple open programs and screens at once.

Best of all, the ability to position the monitor through the use of monitor mounts virtually eliminates many of the physical problems encountered by workers who spend much of their time sitting in front of a computer screen. If you use a computer more than a few minutes at a time, look into the variety of monitor mounts, flat screen mounts and even laptop mounting solutions that can make your life more comfortable, more productive and easier.