Employees' discomfort should make you uncomfortable.

In a population of many thousands of US-based computer users at a California-based corporation, a single report of constant or frequent discomfort by an individual over a three year period (we asked them many times, they potentially answered many times) correlated to a 20X greater likelihood of that individual filing a workers’ compensation claim. 

While the causes of discomfort varied for this population, “discomfort frequency” provides this particular company with a reliable way to make decisions about how to spend their limited resources to have the maximum impact on the health and productivity of their workforce and a substantial reduction in losses.