Office diseases: 7. Office Colour Blindness

Office Colour Blindness is the inability to see certain colors in the usual way. It is a state of mind in transition, a state in which an individual’s senses adapt to new stimuli and he or she becomes aware that the colours in his work environment, which for years he had thought of as correct, are in fact not. Office Colour Blindness occurs when there is initially a temporary a problem with the colour-sensing materials (pigments) in certain nerve cells of the eye. These cells are called cones. They are found in the retina, the light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the inner eye.

If your work environment like many office has mainly grey colours, you might start having trouble telling the difference between red, green and other colours. This is the most common type of Office Colour Blindness. In an advanced stage people have trouble seeing blue-yellow colours. People with blue-yellow colour blindness almost always have problems identify reds and greens, too. Initially this specific type of Colour Blindness occurs only within the work environment and will disappear once the worker leaves the office. However, after ten, fifteen or twenty five years in a grey dominated office, these sufferers will not be able to distinguish any colour and will be doomed to see the world in office grey.

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