Did you know that an average office keyboard and mouse can contain as much as 400 times more germs and bacteria than a toilet seat? That’s pretty disgusting, especially when you start to imagine opening a bag of crisps and eating them – after using your keyboard!
Such bacteria can cause any number of ailments and illnesses, such as diarrhoea and other stomach upsets. The main cause of a bug infested keyboard is eating lunch at our desk along with poor personal hygiene, such as dodging the hand washing basin after going to the toilet – yes, there are some that do this!
Despite the obvious health hazard of a dirty keyboard, how often people clean their computers, varies widely. One in ten people say they never clean their keyboard with a further 20% admitting to never cleaning their mouse.
The good news is that preventing these kinds of health incidents is pretty easy.
The solution: regularly clean your workspace, especially your keyboard and mouse.
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