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Subject:RE: Misc: The perils of bad lighting From:"Bruce Megan (ST-CO/ENG2.2)" <Megan -dot- Bruce -at- us -dot- bosch -dot- com> To:<salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 6 May 2009 08:26:08 -0500
At my old job, I was fortunate enough to have an office with a door,
because I replaced all the fluorescent light bulbs with natural light
fluorescent bulbs...or grow lights. I was amazed at how much more
productive I was and how terrible the other lighting really was.
Megan Bruce
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Subject: Re: Misc: The perils of bad lighting
Thanks for the post, Geoff. I've been especially sensitive to indoor
lighting ever since I can remember. There are certain rooms at work that
instant sleep inducers (never mind the present company therein).
> Chris
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
> Ten years ago I had an employer get me a full-spectrum light because
the
> office lighting was so bad that it nearly put me to sleep and I had
> difficulty concentrating.
>
> Lauren
>
>
> > From: Geoff Hart
>
> > Ever suspected that the lighting in your workplace is affecting your
> > ability to think? Apparently it's not just one of those "they say"
> > things: there's evidence it's true, and that often it's easy to fix.
> >
> > For details, check out a recent issue of the British Psychological
> > Society's Research Digest Blog: http://tinyurl.com/ckbd5m
> >
> > Should that link break, head over to the blog page
> > (http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com
> > ), and look for the article entitled "Classroom lighting could be
> > harming pupils' performance"
>
>
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