Can Your Company Afford To Not Purchase Headsets For Phone Intensive Workers? $128,000.00 injury claim awarded in Illinois. New MDA200 allow you to use one headset for Telephone, PC and Cellphone.

1. October Can Your Company Afford To Not Purchase Headsets
2011
For Phone Intensive Workers?
A recent $128,000.00 injury claim awarded in Illinois because an employee did not
get the headset she asked for set the bar for such future related judgments.
The Return on Investment (ROI) for the Risk Aversion versus the low cost of a
quality headset is not the only consideration. Can you imagine the Public Relations
nightmare related to the Associated Press (AP) publishing such a negative article
about your company or organization?
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Whether risk aversion or avoiding a PR nightmare a headset might be the solution
to avoid a nightmarish situation.
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Prison Clerk Cost
Illinois Taxpayers Report: No headset for prison clerk cost Illinois
$128,000.00
taxpayers $128K
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Illinois taxpayers will have to pay more than $128,000 because a state employee didn't get the
telephone headset she asked for, according to a published report Sunday.
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clerk had complained that not having an ergonomically sound work station or a headset made
her strain her neck, causing pain and worsening her spine problems.
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said supervisors repeatedly denied her requests for a headset or altered work station.
A surgeon who operated on Grott said she had "a pre-existing disc degeneration that was
aggravated" by holding the phone in an awkward manner, according to a summary provided by
the Illinois Attorney General's Office.
Now, the clerk's worker's compensation claim in medical bills is $128,424, according to the
News-Democrat.
Grott, who has been a state employee since 1989, declined to comment to the newspaper.
Illinois Department of Corrections officials said they are waiting for headsets to arrive, which
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