Headache, nausea, skin irritation, a runny nose plague some of us…only at work: as soon as you leave the office, the ailments disappear.
Headache, nausea, skin irritation, a runny nose plague some of us…only at work: as soon as you leave the office, the ailments disappear. Such phenomena are often associated with the quality of the internal environment of buildings and are called “sick premises syndrome”.
English scholars do not agree with this definition. Led by architect Alexi Marmot (Alexi Marmot) and epidemiologist Sir Michael Marmot (Sir Michael Marmot) from University College London (UK), they investigated the working conditions of civil servants: interviewed 4052 people who worked in 44 buildings.
At the same time, the premises were assessed (noise level, lighting, humidity, air quality). It turned out that the well-being of employees is mainly affected not by the physical, but by the psychosocial environment (excessive demands, stress, and other factors).
The more social support and the ability to control the conditions of our work, the better we feel. So, having heard complaints from subordinates about a bad room, management should think about how work is organized and what kind of atmosphere reigns in the office.