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The office experiment: Can science build the perfect workspace?

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Windows, desks and employees are being wired up in a quest to create healthy, evidence-based environments.

In late May, eight employees of Mayo Clinic's medical-records department packed up their belongings, powered down their computers and moved into a brand new office space in the heart of Rochester, Minnesota. There, they made themselves at home — hanging up Walt Disney World calendars, arranging their framed dog photos and settling back into the daily rhythms of office life.

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