Shedding Light on the Workplace Ever since the light bulb was invented, people have used light to blur the boundary between night and day. Nights are lit up bright as day, but in the daytime sunlight is banned from the workplace when it causes, say, too many reflections on computer screens, and is replaced by artificial light. The lighting in most work spaces is antediluvian. Employers rarely spend much time worrying about the influence of lighting on the concentration or the health of their employees. But Bartenbach, a firm of lighting engineers in Innsbruck in the Austrian Tyrol, is trying to change all that.
Tomorrow Today shows how low-cost lighting changes can make the workspace a friendlier place to be.