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A Virtual Office has Health Benefits too

Author: Prity Sonal
by Prity Sonal
Posted: Jun 16, 2016

One of the greatest advantages of being an independent coworker or being a freelancer is that you can work from a virtual office. A virtual office allows you to create the perfect balance between work and life, and work-life balance is not a myth. Your Virtual Office provides the support of a fully functional, professional office, access to workspace as per need and a myriad of assistance from your virtual team and eases your work pressure. Equally important are the salient benefits of your virtual office flexible workspace.

Let's look at some of the health advances that ride along with virtual offices:

    • Healthy Eating: It's much easier to keep a healthy diet while working in a virtual office. In a traditional office, you end up ordering food from outside, or microwave a frozen meal. You either skip a meal because of the work load or munch on some unhealthy snacks all day long forcing your metabolism to go for a toss. On the other hand, in a flexi virtual office, you can take the time to prepare your meals, maintain your health regimen easily, have all meals on time, and the food is fresh. When you eat healthy, everything else falls into place.
  1. Give your back, a rest: Study reveals that 68% of the adults who sit for over 10 hours a day suffer from severe spine issues, like Spondylitis and Sciatica. A virtual office can reduce the amount of time you spend sitting. You have your home environment to break away from a chair – use a different piece of furniture, mix-up work with a few breaks. This can substantially help your spinal cord. Since you travel as per need, your body is at rest and less stressed when you cut your commuting time. At your virtual office, since you are not bound by a desk/ specific work, you can easily break the monotony.
  2. Taking breaks is easier: When spending an entire day in a traditional office, you are mostly glued to your computer screen. This can take a toll on your health in many ways. Meeting deadlines can be really stressful and it can strain your eyes or back. However, a virtual office gives you time and space to step away from the desk for a while, giving your eyes a break and your back some relief. Working in day long office shifts in the typical sense may work out well in terms of productivity, but health can be enhanced in the new age flexi working style.
  3. No more sleep deprivation: In most traditional offices, you are expected to check in by 9 AM. If you are going to bed at midnight and wakeup at, 7:30 AM, then you end up getting only 5 hours of sleep. A cranky mood the next day is the most obvious outcome. Speaking in medical terms, hypertension, migraine, and memory loss can all get triggered due to sleep deprivation. Interestingly, in a flexi virtual office, you get to sleep whenever you'd like, as long as the work is getting done. Getting enough sleep is not only great for productivity, but is also crucial in keeping your weight under check. A recent study reveals that 8% of the Urban Indian population within 30-65 years of age suffers from Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
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