Work Habits

I'm sure if I looked in the architectural guide, the building I worked in over the weekend at Canary Wharf would probably be described as 'smart'. The lighting system may well have been promoted as 'intelligent' but all I know is that it made me look like a monkey.
About every half hour or so I was forced not just to wave my arms in the air like a lunatic but actually lift myself up out of my chair or begin to slide the chair backwards by pushing off with my feet. All so the lights would come back on. I'm sure the system ticks all sorts of 'green' boxes but I'm pretty sure I know how to use a light switch too. Or perhaps the lighting system was a way to avoid dvt, perhaps it also ticks an 'ergonomic' box by making me increase my circulation at regular intervals. Sitting at a computer for hours does not keep the lights on. That I know.
At another work place I discovered on the intranet that they provided a smoking room on the premises. At the end of a subterranean warren sits the most neglected room in the building. Indeed you would be forgiven for thinking you had somehow made it into another building, so out of character is this room with every other. I can accept the wisdom of painting the room nicotine yellow (yes, I could see it was painted rather than stained) but could they not have finished painting? Does the linoleum floor really have to look as if neither broom nor mop has touched it in its 10 years of use? I can only think that either none of the partners smoke or that they have their own private smoking rooms up on the skyline floors (much more likely). I commented on the state of the room to a non-smoker who of course had been blissfully unaware of the existence of such a room but who said "Well, I suppose they don't want to encourage smoking...". Encourage it? Does she think that a lick of paint and a clean floor might make hundreds of staff decide to take up the habit?