Every office I’ve ever worked in has had lighting that’s made me feel varying degrees of insane and depressed. Why? I decided to investigate, writes Rachel Handler. Fluorescents were terrible.

Glaring fluorescent lights in the office are on the way out. The technologies coming in promise to do much more than make everyone look better. Improved, and potentially more healthful, lighting ...

CREE Lighting’s new LN suspended luminaire is an update of the typical inter-office fluorescent lighting system, replaced with long-lasting LEDs with a reconfigured lamp design.

It's not all in your head--toiling away in a cold, beige office under artificial light really does sap your soul. New research shows that you need light and warmth to do your best work--so open ...

There are 2.3 billion fluorescent sockets in the U.S., which consume 42 percent of all lighting electricity, Cree says. About 1.3 billion of those sockets are T8, according to Cree.

Phosphors are essential to fluorescent lighting, and thus office parks the world over, but their use of rare-earth elements makes them less than ideal. Now new types of phosphors have been ...

For years, the choices in office lighting were pretty limited. Four-foot or 2-foot fluorescent lights in square or rectangular fixtures are a common sight. So, too, are long, suspended, continuous ...

Installing bright 2-foot by 4-foot, three-lamp, T12 fluorescent fixtures 8 feet apart in dropped tiled ceilings was the common method of office lighting design in the 20th century. Lighting designers ...

While past assaults on fluorescent office lights have generally focused on energy efficiency (we can't speak to the energy toll of the sky ceiling yet) the Fraunhofer researchers' main aim was to ...