What is WorkPace for?

WorkPace is intended to stop you from getting sore eyes or aches and pains from using a computer. The key to this is pacing your work - maintaining an even work rate, taking regular breaks before fatigue occurs, and doing stretches and exercises to rejuvenate your muscles. Both short and long breaks refresh mind and body and are proven to reduce fatigue and enhance productivity.

Ultimately using WorkPace can prevent you from developing the symptoms of RSI (OOS).

What will WorkPace do?

WorkPace will monitor your keyboard and mouse usage. It will then suggest the optimum (ie. least disruptive) times for taking Micropauses, Breaks, and Exercises

• Micropauses - brief pauses every several minutes that relax muscles to restore blood flow and prevent fatigue buildup. Micropausing is a relatively new technique that is proving to be extremely effective in counteracting RSI.
  
  
• WorkPace Breaks - a period spent away from computer every hour or so
  
  
• Exercises - and stretches to relax tight muscles resulting from constrained postures
  
  

WorkPace also monitors your typing speed and time spent at the computer and can keep daily logs (called usage statistics) of your mouse & keyboard activity for later analysis.

Monitoring all these things allows WorkPace to smooth out your workload, reducing the likelihood of overworking your body, and minimizing stress buildup.

What should I do?

WorkPace will prompt you with small pop-up messages. These do not interrupt your work. However, if you ignore them then after a while WorkPace may try to insist that you to take an exercise/break or micropause.

When a micropause pop-up message appears you should:

• Let go of the mouse (if you are using it)
  
  
• Look away from the screen
  
  
• Drop your hands in your lap, or at your sides
  
  
• Lean back, drop your shoulders, and relax.
  
  

When a exercise/break pop-up message appears you should:

• Do the stretches and exercises
  
  
• Get out of your chair and walk around a bit
  
  
• Then do some non-computer related work (eg. reading, writing, phone, filing)
  
  

A WorkPace break will normally last 5-10 mins.

How do I setup WorkPace properly?

Once WorkPace is installed on your computer you can use the Setup Wizard to create a working regime best suited to you. Then choose Start Monitoring.

If you find WorkPace too annoying, or don't like the way it works there are many ways to change it. See Fine Tuning WorkPace or Setting up WorkPace in the on-line Help.