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Sun turns t’ ice. Most o’ aw, rating ’em as so much Power, and reg’latin ’em as if
they was figures in a soom, or machines: wi’out loves and likens, wi’out
memories and inclinations, wi’out souls to weary and souls to hope - when aw
goes quiet, draggin on wi’ ’em as if they’d nowt o’ th’ kind, and when aw goes
onquiet, reproachin ’em for their want o’ sitch humanly feelins in their dealins
wi’ yo - this will never do ’t, sir, till God’s work is onmade.’
Dickens (1854)
This is what the workspace looked like then.

HOW FAR HAVE WE COME?
We have, of course, made considerable progress. In the United States and
many other industrialized countries, Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED) has become an international standard of environmental
consciousness backed with certification by the US Green Building Council and
its counterparts abroad. A new field of “Buildingonomics” is rapidly extending
the boundaries of LEED certification (Naturalleader-a). On its website, The
Delos Group is advocating a new integrative “WELL Building Standard
and offers its own employees a generous range of options reflecting the
Standard: gym membership reimbursement, complimentary bike share programs,
wearable technology devices and company-wide competitions, nutritious snacks,
subsidized fitness races, organized volunteer events; guided meditation, curated