{"id":45598,"date":"2014-09-30T08:15:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/were-dooomed-office-illness-edition.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:48:14","slug":"were-dooomed-office-illness-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/were-dooomed-office-illness-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"We're DOOOMED (Office Illness Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telecommuting is looking more and more attractive.<\/p>\n

'The University of Arizona researchers conducted their study at an office building with 80 employees. They contaminated a push-plate door at the building entrance with a virus called bacteriophage MS-2. It doesn't infect people yet is similar in shape, size and survivability to common cold and stomach flu viruses. Within two hours, the virus had contaminated the break room—coffee pot, microwave button, fridge door handle—and then spread to restrooms, individual offices and cubicles. There, researchers found, the virus had heavily contaminated phones, desks and computers. By four hours, they found the virus on more than 50% of the commonly touched surfaces and on hands of about half of the employees in the office.'<\/i><\/p>\n

Other fun experimental results also included in the article.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nGerms at the Office Are Often Found on Keyboards and at Coffee Stations<\/a><\/span>
\nVirus Went From Front Door to Half the Office in Four Hours, Study Finds\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Telecommuting is looking more and more attractive. 'The University of Arizona researchers conducted their study at an office building with 80 employees. They contaminated a push-plate door at the building entrance with a virus called bacteriophage MS-2. 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