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That's the main problem with motion activated office lights tbf, especially when you're doing software development for example - not enough motion to keep them on.


My problem with the motion activated office lights (at least the ones at the wework my company is located) is that you can't turn them off. The button appears to turn the lights off and disable the motion sensor for some (short) period of time, then movement turns the lights back on again. Very annoying.


My office has a piece of paper taped over the motion sensor on the roof for that reason.


Eh, it encourages me to get up and have a stretch periodically.


That doesn't work in a toilet stall.


May I suggest some fiber?


Every time! The coffee shop by my old house had motion sensing lights in the washroom, and every damned time I would be plunged into darkness half-way through my visit... Urgh.


Our company has this in the toilets, when it goes dark you just wave your hands


Ours does too, but there's no sensors inside the stall... You can wave all you want, there's no way to turn the lights back on without opening the stall door.

Thank goodness for phone flashlights!


could be fixed with sensors in all the seats, or on the floors where people with standing desks are




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