As Americans made the move from offices to makeshift, home-based workstations during the pandemic, the possibility of a rise in soft-tissue injuries from working too long at kitchen counters or coffee tables became a new risk for workers’ comp pros to contemplate.

Did working from the couch and kitchen counter result in a spike in claims? According to Komodo Health, Inc., a software company that specializes in analyzing health care data, the answer is no. The company reported that claims have remained lower than a pre-pandemic baseline for most of the period it analyzed.