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Guarding Your Gaze New monitors are being designed with Eye Comfort in mind. Paul Butler, AOC and MMD (Philips Monitors) regional sales director UK&I, discusses recent innovative monitor features that procurement departments and end users should be ‘looking’ for.
Much has been written recently about the amount of time our eyes spend focused on our screens, with research conducted by Specsavers estimating that hybrid workers spend up to 12 hours per day on their screens. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the UK, employers must, by law, protect their workers from the health risks of working with display screen equipment (DSE), such as PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones, and provide a DSE workstation assessment, make sure employees take breaks, provide training and provide an eye test if a worker asks for one.
Eye Comfort Importance With this in mind, and in vision, UC Advanced asked Paul Butler,
“How much of an issue is eye comfort for end users?” Paul replied, “It’s become absolutely critical. Digital eye strain has become a major workplace health issue with the shift to hybrid working making it a permanent concern rather than a temporary one. Computer Vision Syndrome is now widely recognised as affecting the majority of office workers who spend extended periods in front of screens. For manufacturers like AOC, eye comfort has moved from being a nice-to- ! refresh rates A monitor’s refresh rate is how many times per second it updates the image on the screen, measured in Hertz (Hz). A higher refresh rate means the image refreshes more often, leading to smoother motion, less blurring, and a more responsive experience.
have feature to an essential specification that customers actively demand and procurement departments specifically look for. See Clearly, Work Comfortably: Monitors That Move With You Paul continues, “The key factors are refresh rates, blue light management, and ergonomics. Higher refresh rates like the 120 Hz we use across our business focussed E4 and P4 series make a massive difference – smoother visuals mean less eye strain. Hardware-based blue light reduction is crucial rather than software filters that compromise colour accuracy. Then there’s positioning - proper height adjustment and viewing angles are vital, which is why all our
Digital eye strain has become a major workplace health issue with the shift to hybrid working making it a permanent concern rather than a temporary one.
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