Boring, Dirty Workplace May Affect Your Brain Function: Study
Bosses, take note! A lack of stimulation in the workplace and a dirty working environment can have a long-term cognitive effect on employees, a new study has warned.
"Psychologists say that the brain is a muscle, while industrial hygienists point to chemicals in the work environment that may cause decline," said Joseph Grzywacz from Florida State University in the US.
"There are real things in the workplace that can shape cognitive function: some that you can see or touch and others you cannot. We showed that both matter to cognitive health in adulthood," said Grzywacz.
In the past, researchers had been divided on whether it was working in an unclean workplace?facing exposure to agents such as mold, lead or loud noises - or working in an unstimulating environment that took the biggest...