Digital eye strain impacts 71% of employees. It's overlooked in the modern workplace. It costs productivity and employee happiness. Download here
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When you are using your computer 6–12 hours per day, 5½ days per week, your eye muscles get strained due to focussing on short distances. Couple that with a powerful backlight beaming at your eyes, and reduced blink rates of up to 68–80%, and you can see why your eyes suffer.
The unnatural sedentary position puts enormous stress on your lower back and neck. Over time, as you age, chronic back pain could emerge.
Studies have shown that most employees don't skip work when they have eye strain. Instead, they operate at reduced productivity levels. In 2011, the loss was estimated at $799 USD per employee in Japan.
The only solution to digital eye strain and back pain is to take regular short breaks. The problem is when you're working hard, it's tough to take a break.
theCucumber.app covers your entire screen. It is a simple yet powerful break scheduler designed for teams (& individuals), so the whole team takes their break synchronized. This fosters team unity and eventually becomes engrained in the team culture.
It's available for macOS and Windows 10. Within a month, your team should notice reduced eye strain, better back and neck health, and in some fields, improved concentration and creativity.
Managers set scheduled breaks for the entire team. No matter the timezone, breaks are scheduled in unison to generate team cohesion.
Optometrists advocate the 20–20–20 rule. This means every 20 minutes, take a 20–second break by looking at something 6m ( 20ft ) away. This will help relax your eye muscles from the stress and strain of looking at a closeup screen.
To counter the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, short breaks for stretching and walking are recommended.
All break schedules are extensively customizable so they can be set to operate during only office hours.
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| ROBUST SCREEN BLOCKING When you're working hard, it's tough to take a break. Robust screen blocking covers your workspace to force you to take your scheduled breaks until it becomes habitual. The productivity gains will come in the long-run. |
BLINK ALARM Your blink rate reduces by 68–80% when you're in front of a screen. The increased dryness contributes to digital eye strain. You can set an alarm to remind youself to blink at your natural frequency. |
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| OFFLINE ENABLED Eye strain can strike when you're not online. You could be working in an airplane or remotely in the middle of the Australian Outback. The scheduled breaks will continue to protect you. |
PRESENTATION PAUSES Sometimes you're in a video conference. Other times you've got an important presentation. You can pause the app up to the daily limit so it doesn't interfere with immediate priorities. |
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| URGENT TASKS The Screen Block is there to help you. On the rare occasion when you have an urgent task, you can skip the scheduled break — but only up to a daily limit. |
SOPHISTICATED SCHEDULING Managers can create fine-grained break schedules such as only during office hours. More advanced users can use CRON syntax to create breaks such as on a particular day of the week or range of months. |
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| TEAM UNITY Enterprise customers can set their team or company logo as the design. |
- IMPACT OF DRY EYE ON WORK PRODUCTIVITY (2012) BY YAMADA, M, ET AL.
- EFFECTIVENESS OF A PARTICIPATORY EYE CARE PROGRAM IN REDUCING EYE STRAIN (2017) BY SUDAW LERTWISUTTIPAIBOON, ET AL.
- IMPACT OF DRY EYE DISEASE ON WORK PRODUCTIVITY, AND PATIENTS’ SATISFACTION WITH OVER-THE-COUNTER DRY EYE TREATMENTS (2016) BY NICHOLS, K, ET AL.
- DIGITAL EYE STRAIN: PREVALENCE, MEASUREMENT AND AMELIORATION (2018) BY SHEPPARD, A, ET AL.
- OCULAR ERGONOMICS FOR THE COMPUTER VISION SYNDROME (2018) BY TURGUT, B
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