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Are you working in the cellar at home? Why would you have less vitamin D working from home than say, an office?
by prmoustache 3y ago
Are you working in the cellar at home? Why would you have less vitamin D working from home than say, an office?
- danparsonson 3y agoUnless you're teleporting or living there, getting from home to the office normally involves at least some exposure to sunlight.
- prmoustache 3y agoWorking from home doesn't mean you are forced or even have any incentive to stay at home all day long.
- danparsonson 3y agoOK but the OP didn't say all people get vitamin D deficiency from working at home, they were only describing their own experience.
- bratbag 3y agoWhen did I say I was forced? Are you actually responding to what I said, or are you just preemptively attacking what you (incorrectly) assume is an anti wfh statement?
- prmoustache 3y agoI am just disputing the causality of that deficiency of vitamin D. WFH has nothing to do with the fact one doesn't spend some time outside every day.
- fragmede 3y agoEven just 15 mins in the sun helps vitamin D levels so walking from the house to the car into the office and back again is enough to make a difference compared to not going out at all, no?
- orwin 3y agoYou mean some people only go out to work? If true, OK, I was wrong about WFH/hybrid being superior to RTO, I guess different people mean different habits.
- dukeyukey 3y agoI live in the UK, it was only a few weeks ago it stopped being dark when I finish work. Climate is a bitch.
- prmoustache 3y agoThat is offtopic no? people driving/walking/cycling to work face the same climate and hours with sunlight. One of the nice things that usually comes from WFH is a bit more flexibility in work time schedule. I usually go for a walk at least once during the day, usually to get groceries, and every other week I have to pickup my smallest daughter in primary school. And when the weather is nice and the days short in winter I would often do a 2 to 3h pause during the day to go for a cycling ride.
- lamontcg 3y agoPeople who only go outside during daylight hours to go to the office are a bit of a symptom of a problem, not really a solution.
- prmoustache 3y agoI am working from home and the first thing I want to do when I stop working is going outside. I also, and as do many of my coworker, go for a walk at least once a day. WFH doesn't mean you are chained to your desk from 8am to 5pm
- neilwilson 3y agoDepends upon what latitude you live at. Where I am, the sun isn't strong enough to trigger synthesis from October until the end of April. After that you need a lot of skin exposed to get anything, which is difficult 'cos it ain't that warm. There is a reason red hair appeared in Southern Scotland/Northern Ireland.