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Our position on monitors.

1. Place monitors directly ahead of you for a straight line-of-sight viewing angle. Do not place your monitor (or your keyboard) off at an angle. Viewing at an angle increases neck and shoulder stress. Angle viewing also requires you to twist the upper torso and places unnecessary stress on upper body muscles.

2. Place monitors at a height so the top of the viewing area is ten degrees lower (or more) than your forward line-of-sight.

3. Monitors placed too high make you to tilt your neck back which increases shoulder and neck stress. Recommended monitor placement will keep your head in a natural viewing position. Bending your head down is acceptable. Bending it up is stressful.

4. Place monitors at an arms length distance from you, or more. Doing so minimizes eye strain. As monitor size increases, the desired distance between you and your screen should also increase.

5. Adjust and position your monitor height. You can do this with books, blocks or monitor risers but they don’t let you quickly adjust monitor position or push your monitor out of the way. Obviously a better solution is a monitor arm that permits you to height adjust, position, or rotate your monitor. Before you purchase a monitor arm, determine the amount of vertical and horizontal arm movement you need. Monitors used for sit-to-stand work require a greater adjustment range than those for seated work alone.

6. To reduce glare, set your monitor at the lowest brightness setting at which you see comfortably without straining.