Visual skills and labor turnover

Abstract

Workers in the lens inspection department in an optical goods manufacturing company were given a preemployment battery of visual tests incorporated in the Ortho-Rater. Workers who remained on the job less than 4 months were more variable in vertical phoria than workers who remained more than 8 months. The total data show that individuals who deviate from ortho-phoria in either direction vertically and toward exophoria laterally are much more apt to leave the job early. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)