Joining the illuminati

The owners had probably originally planned to have adequate lighting for the entire area, but over time more and more people had to be crammed into that space, including an ever-increasing number of managers – and what’s worse, each of them required their own office. These offices were positioned next to a glass façade, thus cutting off the access to light for another row of desks. Of course, these offices had glass walls, but they also had venetian blinds, and every manager would sooner or later be tempted to close them. Since I was aware that there was some corporate office where the CEO and the rest of the management sat in a glass box far, far away from the windows, it seemed to me as though I was existing in some alternative reality. At least these days, here and there you can see some change. Access to light is one of the criteria required for the certification of buildings, while the interiors and the wellbeing of the users are important to their overall qual