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It might sound a bit strange to say that we can look after our health when we are working with documents. After all, looking after our health is about taking regular exercise, eating well and considering our mental health as well. How can working with documents help with any of that?
We’re often told how bad it is for us to have a sedentary lifestyle, and that office based work is a bad thing because we sit at computers for many hours a day. Well, we don’t have to be sitting at a computer to be productive with documents.
Speech to text software can free us from our chairs.
When you are talking to your computer, instead of typing at a keyboard, you can turn the tables on a number of aspects of the sedentary working lifestyle that are seen to be bad for our health:
While these factors relate most directly to physical health while working with documents, there are additional benefits.
Speech to text is faster than typing – up to three times faster. You now have time to take a lunch hour away from the desk instead of sneaking lunch while finishing off a report. You can finish work early and go play some sports, go out with friends, go to the cinema, or do other activities that are good for your mental health, life-work balance and physical health.
So, working with documents can help us look after our health, after all.
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