The Department of Information Technology at the College of Computer Science and Information Technology ran an educational workshop entitled “Office work and tablets and their effects on physical health”. The workshop was managed by Dr. Muhammed Abid Aziz, a lecturer at the Department of Information Technology, and Dr. Muhammed Jassim Muhammed of the Karbala Education Directorate. This workshop aims to educate the office staff, including teachers and employees, on the health problems caused by excessive office work and working on tablets for long periods of time. It also tackled the means to prevent and treat these cases in order to provide a healthy environment suitable for work especially in the university premises. The workshop included discussing the health problems caused by tablet devices such as computer and mobile screens, and their effect on vital human organs such as the eye and the nervous system. It further addressed the wrong practices in desk sitting and their effects on the straightness of the spine. The two lecturers stressed that such practices may lead to a hunched back and neck curvature with the passage of time. After reviewing these problems in detail, the lecturers presented preventive treatment solutions, such as raising awareness of the correct position of the body during work and practising special types of exercises.