How to increase productivity and health in daily coding life

TLDR; If you are daily on your desk for hours, you should consider the following tips for your health and productivity. I am giving you advice on how you should build up an ergonomic setup, implement daily activity breaks, and what kind of physical activities you should consider in what volume.

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Health issues like neck pain, back pain, or any sort of pain in your musculoskeletal system is a common phenomenon nowadays. Even more, with the increasing numbers of jobs in the tech industry, because of the rising demand for programmers, analysts, data scientists, and developers. Before the pandemic, this was a problem and now it is even worse. Because home office reduced significantly the amount of movement in our day-to-day work (1), which relates also to significantly more pain in the musculoskeletal system.

“Compared to previous work at the office, 90 (39.1 %) participants reported stronger pain in the lower back, 105 (45.7 %) in the upper back/neck, and 63 (27.2 %) in their hands. Only one third did not report any musculoskeletal problems related to work from home.” (2)

It is also proven that the home office can increase the volume of stress (3).

You think, why should I care?

For your health of course! Below are some important benefits here from betterhealth.vic.gov.au (4). In…