Pretty much everyone I work with has an office without a window or a cubicle inside a larger area which also doesn’t have a window. The Russians**, you see, can beam “lasers” at our windows and eavesdrop on us. So even those with window offices have internal, sound absorbing, opaque shrouds that seal with velcro all around their perimeters.
We have rather innovative management, given the constraints, and in order that we can have a vague sense that there’s a world out there and that the sun is shining, they’ve put webcams on top of two of our buildings, looking down at the parking lots. If I were more cynical, I’d comment on how desperate we are for any contact with the outside world, but I’m not cynical today, and I want to report that it actually works. A mostly static picture of cars on asphalt, with a few strips of bright green grass, occasionally interrupted by someone walking by, and it makes a small but real improvement in my mood.
So, how does this sound to normal people?
** Generic term; replace with your choice high-tech bogeymen.
