This has pretty big impacts on your cognitive function. It seems similar to not getting enough sleep. Not getting enough sleep also has a pretty big impact on your cognitive function. And perhaps more importantly, it’s something that we are prone to underestimating. It feels like we’re only a little bit off, when in reality we’re a lot off.
It is my repeated experience in companies that well-ventilated rooms are selected by people as workplaces, and the unventilated ones then remain available for meetings. I seem to be more sensitive about this than most people, so I often notice that “this room makes me drowsy”. (My colleagues usually insists that it is not so bad, and they have a good reason to do so… why would they risk that their current workplace will be instead selected as a new meeting room, and they get this unventilated place as a new workspace?)
It is my repeated experience in companies that well-ventilated rooms are selected by people as workplaces, and the unventilated ones then remain available for meetings. I seem to be more sensitive about this than most people, so I often notice that “this room makes me drowsy”. (My colleagues usually insists that it is not so bad, and they have a good reason to do so… why would they risk that their current workplace will be instead selected as a new meeting room, and they get this unventilated place as a new workspace?)