Opinion: Does space and comfort have anything to do with a techie’s health and performance?

For the past few weeks, the IT world has lost at least two tech experts to India’s heat wave, supposedly because they have been working in intense heat in a makeshift computer lab that was poorly ventilated and was further suppressed by the warm field that was being emitted from over a dozen desktop computers.

For those who knew them, the men enjoyed working in the condition in which they had died, and were probably even aware of their potential endings.

While I know that workstations indeed generate a reasonable amount of heat, I am not sure whether that can realistically contribute to the two men’s demises. As such, I would prefer to leave that subject matter to further debate.

But according to most work safety guidelines, persons in the tech field (like any other) are reliant on a comfortable workspace since heat from their units can impact their health in a poorly ventilated room. Furthermore a tech person brainstorming in a crowded or camped room can potentially experience mental breakdowns as a result of their environment.

However, in despite of my efforts to have an agreeable opinion on whether a crowded workspace can impact tech savvy persons, every source provided a different and sometimes complex answer.

After all, in the world of information technology, an agreement on whether your working space, your technological equipment, or your environment can have an impact on your performance, has yielded elusive answers for years.

While people like myself personally feels that my workstation, space and environment has a lot to do with my performance, ” target=”_blank”>Facebook’s birth from a crowded dorm room does not seem to support my views.

And in any case, relying on the coincidental cramped space history of large tech companies to guide one’s analysis about adequate working space might just turn out to be a bad yard stick.

So I directed my research at the most easily accessible and most likely to be affected persons in the world of IT.

Among my many friends, I spoke with Sherlina Kraig, a hardware analyst at ” target=”_blank”>(38 Practical Space Saving Interior Design Ideas) a few days back. But she smiled at my question and jokingly suggested that I had to subscribe to her design ideas to be better advised.

In the end, she stressed that space and comfort certainly has a lot to do with safe working and dwelling conditions.

She had no explanation for those who prefers to be stuck in a crowded room.

Do you?