The Office Management Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Or, at the very least to carry out a self-assessment following a brief training session / guide or eLearning tool which is the legal requirement in the UK under the HSE (Health & Safety Executive) in the Display Screen Regulations 1992. Get to know your chair: how does it raise or lower, can I move the seat pan or the lumbar support?

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Overweight employee keeps breaking office chairs. We have an obese employee who has broken several office chairs. As a result, she has used other chairs in the office and broken them. I am getting ready to purchase more chairs and another one that goes up to 400 pounds for her. Here we go….

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

I’m not allowed to buy my own office chair. Having big issues with my back pain and several scary looking diagnoses, I asked our manager if I can buy an ergonomic chair with high adjustability and pay for it myself. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. The answer was “no, I am not sure we are insured for this.”

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APRIL 18, 2017

If she pushes back, say this: “I understand that you don’t think it’s a big deal, but it’s making me uncomfortable, and legally we’re on shaky ground insisting that employees have to be around half-naked colleagues. Chairs won’t support my weight when I visit our other offices. Fishy in the legal sense? It’s not illegal.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

I keep breaking my office chairs. A year or so ago, upper management bought new chairs for our entire office. This is also my first real job in the legal field (I’ve been here two years) so his reference will be very valuable to me when I job search. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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MARCH 22, 2023

Is this something I should bring up later in a “hey, maybe educate yourself on what’s legal and not” way? It’s legal in most states, but obviously incredibly messed up — if you’re going to be charged a sick day, why would you bother working from home?

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The interviewer (VP and sister of the company owner) will be my boss, and the work space she has planned for her new hire is a computer set up at a small round table in the corner of her office. No desk, no shelf, no drawer, not even a proper office chair, at least as far as I could tell in my first interview. Is this legal?

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