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Subject:

Re: HRT Therapy and temperature control - changing rooms

From:

Karen Coomer <[log in to unmask]>

Reply-To:

Occupational Health mailing list <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:20:00 +0100

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text/plain (108 lines) , Work environment and stress.pdf (108 lines)

I agree with this.

For anyone interested in this topic I wrote an article a few years ago which
you may find interesting. I attach a copy.

Regards
Karen

-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Maguire, Kevin
Sent: 03 June 2010 10:00
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] HRT Therapy and temperature control - changing
rooms

Dear list,

Sharon's email reminds us not to underestimate the effects of a room change.

On several occasions, I have investigated environmental conditions and
found, behind the complaint, an enforced room change.  On once occasion, it
happened while the person was on leave: they returned to the different space
without any notice.  It is only human to become attached to a place and, if
the rest of someone's life is in turmoil, then the workplace office might be
the one familiar reference point.  Our space says so much to us about who we
are.  It can be part of our existence.   Removing the space can be a threat
to the notion of that existence.  There is a concept in Transactional
Analysis (anyone here old enough to recall TA?) called discounting which
covers this very well: it is when one person in the transaction signals to
the other that they are not taken into account.  It was put as starkly to me
as "it is like shooting that person".  If you are feeling particularly
philosophical and post-mdernist, you might read Foucault's "Technologies of
Self" where he talks of how the knowing and the caring of self (maintaining
one's space might be seen as part of that caring) react iteratively in the
continual remaking of self.

So, take the person's space away and - well - the effect is inevitable.  All
office changes should be really well planned and involve the affected
person.

Kevin


P.S. The extreme of office changes is, of course, 'hot-desking' but it is
interesting how 'hot-desking' really plays out.  I have come across
instances where spaces are claimed, territory marked, and a particular desk
becomes that person's space: hot desks get cooled down.


-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] on behalf of Naylor, Sharon [HMPS]
Sent: Wed 02/06/2010 16:52
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] HRT Therapy and temperature control

I once had a case where 1 individual in a shared office complained of
various environmental factors that apparently affected his health -
temperature, the lights (apparently they burned his head) , glare off
the monitor caused him to have double vision, chairs gave him back ache,
couldnt hear the phones etc etc. When the office was adjusted for his
"needs" no one else could see what they were doing and were very
uncomfortable so they gave him an office on his own(not my advice
actually)  . Turns out that he had been moved from a single office into
a shared one in a management reshuffle and he felt muchly miffed by
this.  In he went to his singleton office with exctly the same lights
etc as the shared one and all his symptoms disappeared overnight, they
gave him a week in there and then told him everything was the same and
moved him out again.

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