Risk factors associated with the conditions of modern office work (literature review)

For quite a long time, working in an office was considered as an example of relatively safe work, taking into account the fact that in the workplace in most offices there are no traditional harmful factors of the working environment and the labour process: noise, vibration, aerosols, and harmful chemicals, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, biological substrates, etc. However, in recent decades, the working conditions and health in office workers have become increasingly alarming to specialists around the world.

The purpose of the work. Analysis of factors of the production environment and the labour process in modern offices and their impact on the health in employees: a review of foreign and domestic scientific research.

To conduct research on this topic, an extensive search of foreign and domestic literature was performed using various databases such as Scopus, Web of Science, MedLine, elibrary.ru, CyberLeninka, and RSCI. During this search, special attention was paid to the PubMed database.

Results. In fact, work in the office does not always remain absolutely safe for the health in an employee, who is affected by a complex of ergonomic and other psychosocial factors characteristic of the office, but not included in the special assessment of working conditions.

Conclusion. The analysis of modern scientific literature shows that despite the absence of traditional harmful factors of the working environment and the labour process, the staff of modern offices is affected by a whole range of internal factors of the office environment – indoor air quality (microclimate, aerosols, chemical, biological pollution, air ionization), external physical factors, ergonomics, intensity and intensity of work, psychosocial factors.

Contribution:
Masyagutova L.M. – research concept and design, data collection and processing, text writing;
Sadrtdinova G.R. – writing the text, selection and translation of literature;
Stepanov E.G. – writing the text, editing;
Kaibyshev V.T. – data collection and processing, text writing.
All authors are responsible for the integrity of all parts of the manuscript and approval of the manuscript final version.

Conflict of interests. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgment. The study was not sponsored.

Received: November 15, 2024 / Accepted: March 26, 2025 / Published: June 27, 2025

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