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When screen, chair, and desktop don’t move, we move our heads to get the viewing distance that feels right. That’s why we’ll contort our bodies in unhealthy ways without thinking and without noticing any resulting discomfort. And that’s why it’s important to take inventory of your body and ask, “Am I hurting anywhere?”
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My only concern though is that in placing the screen closer, especially when it is placed as low as it is in the image above, is likely to result in neck pain as the angle between the eye-ear line and the centre of the persons field of vision is quite large.
I would normally expect to see the screen placed higher in order to alleviate the need to flex the neck excessively. Even if the person is using bi-focals, the screen centre in this case seems well below the cone of esay eye rotation.