From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: PC Basics, Hardware, Operating Systems, and Applications

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Preparing the work area

Preparing the work area

- Setting up a new workspace means more than just throwing a desk and a chair and a computer into a new office. You have to think about other factors, like, environment, power, networking and ergonomics. Computers get hot. All that electricity flowing through the computing components generates heat. You need to control the environment in the work area. Now, people and computers can tolerate a pretty wide range of temperature and humidity, but for overall comfort and computing excellence, the baseline is 72 degrees Fahrenheit and 50% humidity. If your office still uses wired networking, make sure the desk is situated conveniently so you can run a cable from the computer to the wall jack. What's wrong with this picture? Throughout this episode, I've been doing this, looking down at this monitor. That's poor placement or bad ergonomics. The monitor should be between 16 and 24 inches away from the user, which, in this case it is. But it also, the top of the monitor, should line up at…

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