January 13, 2009
Help is at hand - or more precisely, foot - for office staff suffering from repetitive strain injury (RSI) - or as Guru likes to call it - shirkers' disease.
Guru has long been suspicious of workers who claim their hands or fingers are aching a bit after doing to much typing or using a mouse for too long. In Guru's experience it usually means they have been spending several hours on Facebook or checking out the celebrity gossip sites.
Now UK company Keytools has launched something which it claims can prevent all this. A 'slipper' worn on one foot controls the cursor while the other foot taps the equivalent of left and right mouse buttons.
But how long will it be before some chancer brings a claim for RSI of the foot or ankle? Surely this invention is just moving the focus of the problem elsewhere on the body?
Guru thinks it won't be long before we see an army of UK workers limping their way to work, ankle joints and toes weakened by this new machine.
Still, at least their hands will be working fine and they can fill out the complaint form to the occupational health department - and their personal injury solicitor.
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