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From talking to a guy I used to know who was studying Neuroscience... Working around Fluorescent lights is apparently insanely harmful..
I KNEW IT
When I used to work in the computer lab at school, this big florescent lit room, after a couple hours I started to stink. I could smell myself. I was told it's because the flickering florescents do something to my glands or metabolism or something.
How?
Grounding as in electricity?
I'm not nearly as informed on this to be helpful but it's my understanding that there may actually something to this idea.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4378297/
Huh. I am not ruling out that there may be something to it, but this article somehow triggers my bullshit detector. A lot of very flowery language, with what looks to me like wild speculation. And some of the claims about electricity are just... weird.
Ah yes, here we go. Doesn't inspire confidence in them being unbiased.
Yup! ⏚ - when your outside touching the ground with your feet, you have a different potential... shoes in a office.... your just floating.
Wearing rubber slippers, measured against (presumably) good ground. Granted, my voltmeter is absolute trash, but I can do it with a decent benchtop one at work and I'm confident the value will be similar.
I'd be much more concerned about EMI / "electro-smog", all the electromagnetic fields and radio emissions around us. Those are very much measurable, they don't really care about any arbitrary concept like "ground potential" whatever that might be, and your body works like a (bad) antenna, if you want it or not.
I am still not particularly concerned about them, fuck, I work in microwave tech and am a ham radio guy, if it has any negative effects, I'm certain I'll notice them first. I also occasionally drink, sometimes eat meat, exist in a car-rich environment, am full of microplastic and exercise way too litte, so it is still very far down the list of my health concerns.