100% off for me, this can be automated though so banks of desks have them on and banks of desks have them off.
[https://youtu.be/dyZYkad\_Vvw](https://youtu.be/dyZYkad_Vvw)
Damn this person lucky. They can see outside!
Some of us have to depend on nearby webcams or quietly access the cameras if we didn't want to manage them.
Lol, memories of a long gone company, when my team had desks in a fire exit hallway. You could feel the eyes walking behind as you tried to get stuff done. This was way back before today's fire rules.
I want overhead lights off, warm white lamps dim and on, (and blue light filter on pc at all time). Boss wants overhead lights on on brightest settings, and lamp on brightest cool white setting.
So all lights are always on on brightest setting.......
with my colleague we keep them lights off, then the third one comes in late and slams the switches and we go blind for 10-15 seconds. so we try to switch them on carefully to adapt by the arrival of the third
Lights off. After all, I've got Windows all over my office. :D
For real, lights on. I'm old enough now that dim light means I can't properly see what I'm doing.
When I worked in the office, I was the first one in. 7am - 4pm shift
It was glorious. Overhead lights off, sunrise through the windows, waking up with the sun...
THEN THE BOOMER INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER STOMPS IN FLIPPING ON EVERY FUCKING LIGHT IN THE BUILDING
After covid happened and most of my floor started working from home, IT still needed at least one person onsite, so we'd rotate office days. We were the only department with that requirement, but one person on the accounting team preferred to work in the office for whatever reason, so she'd come every day and turn all the lights on full blast! For a while I could turn off the lights in my section, but then she moved closer to the IT area which was on the same light switch. And the reason she moved over by us: the sun was too bright in her old spot!
The amazing thing about the human brain is the ability to adjust, modify behavior, and process selectively. If the light is the single biggest issue you have, it's saying something.
Not all people have the same issues. Your "ideal environment" is not someone else's. It's presumptuous to believe that it is - so don't ask me, ask the people you work with. If you're all happy then great. But maybe someone is just putting up with your preferences.
I'm in the process of a comment delete so this is going to start reading weird - but don't try to out argue me - I don't work with you nor do I care. You're not really convincing me there's a universal idea - just that it's what you like and in some people it's better.
I miss this Atrium. The offices along the outer walls had huge windows too. Got a sunburn indoors once, during a 5 hour conference call "fixing" an issue caused by Dev depreciating a feature we were still under contract for with Fortune 5 clients.
Which do I prefer? Off, with warm lighting provided from desk/floor lamps.
Which do I actually work with every day? Bright white overhead fluorescents, baby.
I have a dimmer at work and its all the way down, my office is very dim, monitors are dim, from the frosted glass front door looks like the lights are off, no outside windows, makes me cozy/sleepy.
I worked with overhead lights on for the longest time and eventually got fed up with it. Bought a cheap stand lamp with a warm bulb and turned the overhead lights off in my office. My eyestrain vanished the very next day.
Now that I work from home, I usually leave all lights off.
I also run F.lux and Night Mode on every device I can to make the screen a warmer temperature color.
when i was in the office over 9 years ago, we had a locked room due to the work we did. We all agreed no overhead lights and desklamps of various flavors. It was a bit of a personality thing as to what we did with the lamps and that space. One of the few things I miss about being in an office.
now its my home office with led lights and the glow of 7 monitors lol
I work from home and most of my lights are Hue. If I am working during the day I keep it on the Read setting which is a warm light, my SO usually keeps hers on Concentrate which is a cooler white, and then if I am working in the evening, I set it to Relax which is a dim and deep warm.
(Harsh Florescent) Lights on, I'm at work and don't want to fall asleep. Envious of those of you who have "natural light", 2 careers, 30 years and I've never had a window. I never know the weather unless I leave for lunch, and it's usually dark when I leave.
I have a window that almost fills one wall of my office, but it has a downside. VERY leaky and cold in the Winter, and in the Summer the late afternoon Sun angles in and it becomes an oven. I'll still take it over no window, though.
I had a window with a nice view, but then we downsized our office space. The choice was either put IT in the big open cubicle floor with everyone else and deal with all the noise and interruptions, or take over a conference room and have privacy (also a place to store all our shit) but no window. We picked the conference room haha
I worked with a guy who absolutely hated fluorescent lights. On multiple occasions he was caught on camera bringing a ladder into the office and removing lights from his area.
I've given a half-turn to the ones in my ceiling disconnecting them. So even if somebody does flip them on the light doesn't drill its way into my head.
I don't need night lights in my house. Pretty much every room has enough devices with an LED or 5 to light the way perfectly when my eyes are adjusted. I tried counting once, but gave up at 30.
In 20 years, the ONLY times I've had my lights on are on the rare occasion where I'm doing an all-nighter and the small lamp by my keyboard is not enough to see by.
The office lights are drop ceiling fluorescents, and kill my eyes.
My whole team prefers to keep our IT cave pitch black and it drives me nuts haha. We have no window, and while I dislike harsh overhead lighting, I still need to be able to see! I need to get a lamp for my desk or something.
Lights on, with monitor backlighting. Night light mode in Windows.
The more natural light the better. I only have one pair of eyes and try to minimize eye strain.
I don't get to choose anymore since we moved, but I always left the lights off. A) Natural light was more than enough and B) it's harder to sleep when the lights are on.
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