WorkPace User Review
July 8th, 2008 | Published in RSI Products
In Musings from an overworked translator, Jill Sommer reviews WorkPace, a software utility that reminds computer users to take breaks and leads them through a series of exercises.
Jill works as a translator, and has a tendency to focus so deeply that she forgets to take breaks, so a reminder program is an important tool for her:
If you are anything like me, you are passionate about translation and can become fixated on what is displayed on your computer screen, forgetting everything around you. I can work for several hours without taking a break and have been known to forget to eat or even move.
The first day I used the program I was under a lot of stress to get a legal translation of the German Cosmetics Ordinance finished, but I complied with most of the breaks and found my stress level wasn’t as high as it could have been. I never realized how badly I need to stretch and am reminded each time I perform a stretch and hear my back crack or feel the muscle stretch and loosen.
