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Abra & Co

Screen and office lenses · from £230

Eyes shot by four o’clock at the screen? It might be your glasses, not your eyes.

If your eyes ache by the afternoon, the lens is usually the problem, not your eyes. We set a lens to your desk and your screen, so you finish the working day with eyes that still feel fresh.

Book an eye test

Accepting new patients Anti-fatigue from £230, office lenses from £255. Half today and the rest over up to 10 months, interest free.

An eye test at Abra & Co
Tell us about your desk and your screen, and we set the lens to them.

The problem

What people tell us about screens and desks.

  • “My eyes are tired by the middle of the afternoon.”
  • “I get headaches after a day on the laptop.”
  • “I tip my head back to see the screen through my varifocals.”
  • “My neck and shoulders ache by the evening.”
  • “The words go fuzzy after a few hours.”
  • “I keep taking my glasses off to read.”

None of this is something you have to put up with. Most of it comes down to the lens you are looking through.

Why us

Our team fits lenses every day across five practices. We use Zeiss, Hoya, Rodenstock and Essilor, with Hoya our first choice, and we can get almost any lens you need.

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What’s actually happening

Your eyes are working overtime up close.

Every time you look at a screen or a phone, tiny muscles inside your eyes tighten to hold the focus. Do that for eight hours and they tire, like any muscle. That is the aching, the headaches and the blur that creeps in by the end of the day.

From your forties, the lens inside your eye stiffens and those muscles have to work harder still. And if you wear varifocals, the screen part of the lens is a narrow band in the middle, so you tip your head back to find it, and your neck and shoulders pay for it.

Two answers

One lens for tired eyes. One lens for the desk.

Which one you need depends mostly on your age and whether you already need help with reading. We tell you at the eye test.

An anti-fatigue lens: distance power for everyday use, with a slight boost in reading power in the lower part
Your everyday lens, with a small boost in the lower part. It does some of the focusing work when you look down.

Under about forty-five

The anti-fatigue lens For tired eyes

For you if
You are on screens or reading for hours, your eyes are tired or heavy by the evening, and you don’t need reading glasses yet.
What it is
Your normal everyday lens, with a gentle boost of power built into the lower part. When you look down at a screen, a phone or a book, the boost takes some of the strain off the focusing muscles inside your eyes.
What you notice
Very little, which is the point. There is no line and no zone to learn. Your eyes just feel fresher at the end of the day.
Driving
Yes. The top of the lens is your normal distance prescription, so you wear it all day, in the car too.
An office lens: near vision for the desk and papers, intermediate vision for the screens and the person across the room
Near for the desk and your papers, intermediate for the screens and the person across the room.

Over about forty-five

The office lens For the desk

For you if
You wear varifocals or reading glasses and spend hours at a desk, a screen, a workbench or a counter.
What it is
A lens made only for near and middle distance, with no distance vision at the top. Because it doesn’t have to do the distance job, the screen and reading zones are far wider than in a varifocal.
What you notice
You stop tipping your head back. The whole screen is clear, your keyboard and papers are clear, and your neck and shoulders relax.
Driving
No. It is built for indoors. You keep your everyday glasses for the car and for walking about.

Set to your distances

An office lens is set to the room you work in

Every office lens is clear from your reading distance out to a distance we choose with you. A laptop user needs one metre. A teacher, a hairdresser or a shop owner may want four. Tell us about your day and we set the lens to it.

  1. 0.5mClose work

    Reading, sewing, fine detail, the phone in your hand.

  2. 1mThe screen

    Laptop and monitor at arm’s length, the till, everyday tasks.

  3. 2mThe desk and a bit beyond

    Desk work plus the wall planner, painting, crafts, the kitchen.

  4. 3mThe small office

    Conversations, meetings, presentations, the person across the room.

  5. 4mThe bigger room

    Classrooms, workshops, open-plan offices, the salon floor.

Less eye strain

No effort wasted reaching for distance you don’t need indoors.

Wide, clear zones

Less blur at the edges, so you see more of the screen and the desk at once.

Better posture

No leaning in and no tipping your head back. You sit naturally.

Set to you

Your screen size, how far away it sits, and how big the room is.

How we fix each one

Six problems, six answers.

“My eyes are tired by the afternoon.”

Your focusing muscles are working too hard. An anti-fatigue lens takes some of that work away, and if you are over forty-five, it may be time for help with reading.

“The optician explained everything really clearly.”

“Headaches after a day on the laptop.”

Often it is a small prescription nobody corrected, or a lens set for the wrong distance. We check both at the eye test.

“I tip my head back for the screen.”

The screen zone of a varifocal is too narrow for a whole working day. An office lens makes the whole screen clear with your head level.

“Always professional and friendly. You never feel rushed.”

“My neck and shoulders ache.”

That is your posture chasing the clear part of the lens. Wider zones, set to your distances, let you sit naturally.

“The words go fuzzy after a few hours.”

Tired focusing, and often dry eyes too, because we blink less at a screen. We check for both, and treat the dry eye if it is there.

“The optician undertook a thorough examination and covered more areas than I expected.”

“I keep taking my glasses off to read.”

Your distance glasses aren’t right for close work any more. An office lens or a varifocal gives you both, without the swapping.

Anti-fatigue from £230, office lenses from £255, priced on paper before you choose.

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It depends on you

The right screen lens depends on your day.

Your day

How many hours at the screen, how many screens, how far away they sit, and what else you do at the desk.

Your prescription

Whether you need help with reading yet. That decides between an anti-fatigue lens and an office lens.

Your budget

Tell us what you want to spend. We show you what each option gives you for the money.

You

Your frame, and how you want to look at work. An office pair can be a different style from your everyday glasses.

We take all four into account, explain your options in a way that makes sense, and you choose.

Spread the cost

Interest free: half today, the rest over 4, 6, 8 or 10 months.

On any glasses and lenses, at every practice. Pay half on the day you order, then choose how many months to spread the rest over. No interest, and nothing added.

For exampleGlasses for £400£200 today, then£50 a month for 4 months, or£25 a month for 8 months, or£20 a month for 10 monthsAlways £400. Nothing added.

Prices

What screen lenses cost

Prices are for a pair of lenses. Frames are extra, from £70. The thickness you need depends on your prescription, and we tell you which.

Office lens

Set to your distances, from reading out to as far as four metres. Anti-reflection coating included.

Thickness Anti-reflection Plus blue-light filter
Standard £255 £285
Thin and light £285 £305
Extra thin £315 £335
Ultra thin £355 £385

Anti-fatigue lens

Your everyday lens with a boost for close work. A hard coat protects against scratches. Anti-reflection also cuts glare and reflections.

Thickness Hard coat Anti-reflection
Standard £230 £240
Thin and light £250 £260
Extra thin £270 £290
Ultra thin £340 £360
Spread the cost. Pay half today and spread the rest over 4, 6, 8 or 10 months, interest free, with nothing added. Members of our care plans save up to 20%.

The plan

How it works

  1. 1Tell us about your day

    When you book, or at the test. Screens, hours, the size of the room, what aches and when.

  2. 2We measure and recommend

    Your working distances measured at the eye test, then the lens that suits you, explained with every price on paper.

  3. 3Fitted, and checked

    Measured to the millimetre and fitted to your face. Within sixty days, if they’re not right, we change them.

What you get. Your eyes still feel fine at five o’clock.

Put up with it, and every working day ends with tired eyes and a stiff neck.

Get the right lens, and you finish the day with something left for the evening.

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Five practices

Book at your nearest practice

Screen and office lenses at all five. Choose the one closest to you.

Free on the NHS if you qualify, £55 privately, at every practice. All five, with the towns each one serves →

Frequently asked questions

What are computer glasses?

Glasses made for the screen and the desk rather than for distance. For most people that means one of two lenses: an anti-fatigue lens, which is your everyday lens with a small boost for close work, or an office lens, which is made only for near and middle distance.

What is an office lens?

A lens built for near and middle distance: your screen, keyboard, desk and the person across the room, all clear, with wide zones. We set how far it reaches, from one metre for a laptop to four metres for a classroom. It isn’t for driving. It’s your work-and-home pair.

What is an anti-fatigue lens?

Your normal everyday lens with a gentle boost of power in the lower part. The boost does some of the focusing work when you look down at a screen or a book, so your eyes don’t tire. You can drive in it.

Which one do I need?

Under about forty-five, with tired eyes but no need for reading glasses yet: usually anti-fatigue. Over about forty-five, in varifocals or readers, at a desk for hours: usually an office lens. We tell you at the eye test.

Can I drive in them?

In anti-fatigue lenses, yes, because your distance vision is normal. In an office lens, no. It is built for indoors, and you keep your everyday glasses for the car.

Are blue-light lenses the answer?

Rarely on their own. They can cut screen glare, but most screen strain comes from focusing, which is what these two lenses fix. If you want a blue-light filter as well, we can add one to an office lens.

Will my employer pay?

If you use a screen for work, your employer has to pay for an eye test if you ask for one, and for basic glasses if you need them only for screen work. Ask them how they handle it, and bring any form with you.

What do they cost?

Anti-fatigue lenses from £230 and office lenses from £255, depending on thickness and coating. Every option is priced on paper before you choose, and you can pay half today and the rest over 4, 6, 8 or 10 months, interest free.

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