Everyone knows, as Eric Jaffe puts it, that “Outside views are often badges of seniority or achievement in the work world—understandably, given that they’re in short supply.”

A new study suggests that there’s more at stake, though: “an interdisciplinary team of architects and medical researchers . . . recently conducted a small case study comparing people exposed to natural light at their jobs with those who aren’t.” They discovered that “the window workers scored better on common self-report health and sleep surveys; they also slept 46 minutes more a night, on average, as measured by a sleep monitor.”