{"id":11901,"date":"2019-02-12T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T23:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iristech.co\/?p=11901"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T14:36:28","slug":"is-it-a-good-idea-to-put-your-desk-facing-a-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iristech.co\/is-it-a-good-idea-to-put-your-desk-facing-a-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it a good idea to put your desk facing a window?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I find putting your desk facing a window a bad idea<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Apart from the seemingly insignificant fact, that it can be extremely distracting, placing a desk to face the sun burns your retina and you can go blind in the long-term<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Having the window behind you is also a bad idea because it can reflect the light off of your monitor and make the image more \u201cdirty\u201d which is bad for the eyes too<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Because of that, the best decision would be to have the screen placed left or right of you<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>If you want to go a step further you can reduce the <a href=\"https:\/\/iristech.co\/blue-light\/?ap_id=pernichev_wpress\">Blue Light<\/a> that your monitor emits and <a href=\"https:\/\/iristech.co\/blue-light\/?ap_id=pernichev_wpress\">remove the PWM flicker<\/a> so that you can have a better sleep and <a href=\"https:\/\/iristech.co\/blue-light\/?ap_id=pernichev_wpress\">less eye strain<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>There are programs that can do this for you, probably the best one is<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a id=\"download-now-button\" class=\"text-center ignore-visited btn btn-success\" href=\"https:\/\/iristech.co\/\">Download Iris<\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I find putting your desk facing a window a bad idea Apart from the seemingly insignificant fact, that it can be extremely distracting, placing a desk to face the sun burns your retina and you can go blind in the long-term Having the window behind you is also a bad idea because it can reflect the light off of your &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/iristech.co\/is-it-a-good-idea-to-put-your-desk-facing-a-window\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[360],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is it a good idea to put your desk facing a window? | IrisTech<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Your monitor position is a huge factor when it comes to your eye health. 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