According to the study called "Sick Buildings", which addresses the issue of the shortcomings of the work centers that impact the health of those who remain in them, many of the ailments are generated because of poor lighting, reflections on computer screens and closed weather systems where the temperature is standardized for the entire plant.
This is explained by the Marketing Director of the Xtra Group in statements taken by the Mexican newspaper El Universal: "On the desks attached to the windows the air conditioning falls directly on the back of some and the others must be content with the artificial light that always remains on."
Various investigations explain that since 1982 a series of pathological symptoms have been detected in buildings, more discomforts are concentrated due to poor ventilation, decompensation of temperatures, ionic and electromagnetic loads, particles in suspension, gases and vapors of chemical origin and bioaerosols. Elements that cause worsening effects on office workers.
Silva says that staying in an office of these characteristics for eight hours a day for five days a week can allow the development of a series of medical symptoms such as allergies, supposed flu or colds, headache, sinusitis, congestion, dizziness, nausea, tiredness, irritation of the eyes, nose or throat.
To reach the conclusion that the symptom is produced by a "sick" office it is necessary to establish that several employees are affected simultaneously or the unreasonable persistence of the symptomatic picture.
