> People who are neurodivergent, a broad term covering autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and related conditions, are disproportionately affected
I don't think this is at all a coincidence when it comes to office planning and design. It is purposefully exclusionary
Modern offices are just social/business experiments about what a human will put up with to earn a wage and to optimise for the most desired employees. Most offices I've worked at have a majority of these issues:
- Horrible decor mentioned in the article
- Insufficient peak-time toilet capacity
- Zero accounting for the sun's rays (screen glare, solar gain)
- Poor acoustics
- Horrible overhead lighting
- Broken AC in heat waves, lack of natural air cooling in winter (yay, dried sinuses and gloves in winter!)
- Meeting rooms with insufficient fresh air
- Zero design to reduce spreading of viral diseases
- Constant visual distractions
I don't think this is at all a coincidence when it comes to office planning and design. It is purposefully exclusionary
Modern offices are just social/business experiments about what a human will put up with to earn a wage and to optimise for the most desired employees. Most offices I've worked at have a majority of these issues:
- Horrible decor mentioned in the article
- Insufficient peak-time toilet capacity
- Zero accounting for the sun's rays (screen glare, solar gain)
- Poor acoustics
- Horrible overhead lighting
- Broken AC in heat waves, lack of natural air cooling in winter (yay, dried sinuses and gloves in winter!)
- Meeting rooms with insufficient fresh air
- Zero design to reduce spreading of viral diseases
- Constant visual distractions