ERGONOMICS AND ITS APPLICABILITY IN THE COMPOSITION OF FURNITURE IN OFFICE

Abstract

The furniture in the environments in which we carry out our work activities affects our lives and can generate situations of illness that generate costs and leave. Interior design can act according to ergonomics contributing to the well-being of workers. The objective was to analyze, from the literature, how office furniture can affect user performance. This is a bibliographic study, whose trajectory was based on exploratory and selective reading, as well as its integrative review aiming to create a comprehensive and up-to-date body of literature for the process of knowledge and analysis of the results of several studies, contributing to improve the performance and comfort of the user who works in the office. It was observed that there are few studies on the subject. It is concluded that the planning of the appropriate furniture through the interior design becomes a positive strategy in view that it would provide greater well-being and quality to the worker, which directly reflects in the reduction of costs with sick leave due to work-related illnesses.