Lockdown’s optical health impacts

Zeiss Vision Care has released the results of research which found that lockdown has negatively impacted on respondents’ optical wellbeing.

The study, which examined multi-tasking during lockdown among those who had previously worked in an office, found that 49% of those surveyed felt ‘tired eyes’ was their most common difficulty when working at home.

Over half of the 18-24 year old respondents reported problems with tired eyes (51%), while significant minorities in this age group reported headaches (42%) and issues with their clarity of vision when switching between devices (37%).

Lindsay Filmer, marketing director at Zeiss, explained: ‘This survey tells us the extent to which this is happening but also that there are perceived issues here with people’s optical and physical health, which concerns us.’