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The soft cast of dimmable light makes sense for computer work as it creates even lighting across a work surface. This reduces eye strain, since the eyes don’t have to adjust from the direct light of a bright screen to dark space surrounding it, according to Ian Yang, CEO of Gantri. Yang says the company based its findings on in-person customer research and third-party sources, which recommend reducing contrast between foreground and background of your workspace. And less eye strain means less eye fatigue, making it easier to stay focused through an entire work day. Both dim lighting and glare or harsh reflection caused by high contrast lighting can cause eye fatigue, according to Harvard Medical School. (It also says that staring at a screen all day generally will tire the eyes, and recommends giving them a break every so often.) … [Read more...] about Is working from home straining your eyes? These industrial designers have a solution

Early in the pandemic, Capital One saw the need to equip its newly remote workforce with better office equipment and initiated a program that enabled employees to order the most requested home office items—monitors and ergonomic desk chairs—to be delivered to their doorsteps. “The health and well-being of our associates has always been a top priority,” Welch says. “We understood early on that accommodations would be needed to maintain a sense of normalcy for our more than 40,000 associates working remotely.” … [Read more...] about How to handle the challenges of a makeshift home office

But what if we could do something else—anything else—with all these boxes? Like fuel a car? Thanks to Sun-Mi Lee, a research scientist at the Clean Energy Research Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, maybe we can. Her team has cultivated its own microorganism to transform used cardboard boxes into a substance that can be easily refined into biofuel. … [Read more...] about Your Amazon boxes could be turned into biofuel

Speaking at The New York Times DealBook conference in late November, Gates said one of the biggest changes to how business was conducted would have to do with work-related travel. "My prediction would be that over 50 percent of business travel and over 30 percent of days in the office will go away," Gates said. … [Read more...] about COVID-19 impact: Bill Gates says over 50% of business travel will ‘go away’

With a $100 million initial pledge, Gates helped create the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations to invest in drugs and experimental vaccines. The foundation, which has about 1,600 employees, also funded academic researchers, installed its executives on the boards of multiple nonprofits and directly invested in drug companies. … [Read more...] about Bill Gates, the virus and the quest to vaccinate the world