People with good posture get noticed. They generally look and feel better, and exude confidence. That's one of the reasons your Mum always told you to sit/stand up straight when you were a child (another reason was probably that she knows how much back pain can hurt!)

Alright, so you might not be too worried about how you look whilst you're working hard at your computer - but perhaps you should be?

What message does your working posture give out to the world (and your boss)? Does it say "I'm alert, interested and focused?", or does it give the impression you'd rather be anywhere else but at work?

Not only that, but how you sit has a knock on effect on your posture when you stand, and as our images show, how you stand can change your appearance, and peoples' perceptions of you, an awful lot