Take our four-question poll on creating safer workspaces

Sept. 18, 2020
On the blog, we're looking for your take on options to manage a safer return to work in commercial office spaces.

You may have seen some of our latest "Last Word" columns in LEDs Magazine, encouraging a big-picture perspective on how health concerns have opened the collective awareness to how much indoor space we cover as humans in a commercial office setting, specifically. Both Mark Milligan of Enlighted and James Tu of Energy Focus have recently contributed their views on smart lighting technology integration into a workspace and how human-centric design can and should be a priority consideration in the built environment, respectively. These industry viewpoint pieces are very complementary, and I think they are both onto something, in the way that they propose how we can feel more secure and also improve the utility and experience of the built environment with what we've learned from the coronavirus pandemic.

With those thoughts in mind, we developed a little poll today that we hope you'll take and enlighten us to your commercial office status and whether your inclinations to inhabit that workspace would be impacted by new smart lighting and smart building technologies, as well as safe application of ultraviolet germicidal apparatus.

About the Author

Carrie Meadows | Editor-in-Chief, LEDs Magazine

Carrie Meadows has more than 20 years of experience in the publishing and media industry. She worked with the PennWell Technology Group for more than 17 years, having been part of the editorial staff at Solid State Technology, Microlithography World, Lightwave, Portable Design, CleanRooms, Laser Focus World, and Vision Systems Design before the group was acquired by current parent company Endeavor Business Media.

Meadows has received finalist recognition for LEDs Magazine in the FOLIO Eddie Awards, and has volunteered as a judge on several B2B editorial awards committees. She received a BA in English literature from Saint Anselm College, and earned thesis honors in the college's Geisel Library. Without the patience to sit down and write a book of her own, she has gladly undertaken the role of editor for the writings of friends and family.

Meadows enjoys living in the beautiful but sometimes unpredictable four seasons of the New England region, volunteering with an animal shelter, reading (of course), and walking with friends and extended "dog family" in her spare time.