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Study Attempts to Link Office Worker Daylight Exposure and Sleep

sunny officeMy lighting column in the March issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR covers a new University of Illinois study that attempted to link daylight exposure to quality and duration of sleep among office workers:

“Recently, a multidisciplinary team at the University of Illinois, Urbana-­Champaign, set out to determine the effect of daylight on the quality and duration of sleep, as well as the resulting quality of life, of office workers. The results suggest workers in windowed spaces tend to sleep better and longer than those without windows, while showing a greater tendency toward physical activity, possibly due to greater vitality.
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Craig DiLouie
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