The Apprentice this year has had us, and millions across the nation, gripped for weeks now. But it was the business plan devised by this years winner Tom Pellereau that really caught or eye. An ergonomic chair!

Sir Alan was of course his usual ‘loveable’ self and ripped into the plan mercilessly, but since Tom won you can’t help but wonder if Sir Alan has actually seen something in his plan. Despite saying he’d rather give up and emigrate if he were told that he had to provide assessments for all his employees, we think that the the power of the show and the new awareness it will have just given for ergonomic products as well DSE assessments would be a hard thing for Sir Alan to pass up on. There’s no gimmick or fad to rely on, many people work with postural problems without knowledge of the government legislation that is there to help them and of course that ergonomic chairs really do work.

We’ve already discussed the benefits of ergonomic products at work in this post on the costs of absenteeism and also the effects of bad posture in this post so if the Apprentice has brought you here why not give them a read.