IDEA #93

Is your office making you sick?

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Sick building syndrome can lead to absenteeism.

What you need to know

Sick building syndrome (SBS) – the idea that buildings can make us feel unwell – developed as a concept through a combination of worker activism and workplace and epidemiology studies in the 1980s, to the extent that SBS was one of the most investigated occupational health issues in the United States by the 1990s. In 1984, the World Health Organization released a report on SBS, which suggested that up to 30 per cent of all remodelled buildings globally could be the cause. Through a fascinating and quirky historical look at the ...

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