{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Let's Talk Clean Air | Camfil","title":"CAO Mini-Series: Chess vs Air","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1351,"description":"Do chess players perform worse when air quality is lower?\nIn this episode, we delve into a unique study of over 600 high-level competition games and find out how IAQ affects people and their strategic decision-making. Hugely relevant to offices, and other indoor environments, we discover how the tests were conducted and the shocking results.\nTOPICS WE COVER\n01:05 The connection between health and the labour market\n03:21 Comparing workers and managers to chess players\n05:23 How the chess experiment was set up\n09:57 Monitoring players performance\n13:40 Sharing the results\n15:38 Surprising difference between amateur and professionals\n17:26 How this applies to the workplace\nABOUT OUR GUEST\nSteffen Künn is an Associate Professor at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University, and a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) as well as the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA).\nHis main research interests include applied labour economics. In particular, he focuses on two topics; the effectiveness of active labour market policy and the effects of indoor environmental conditions on human health, cognition and labour market outcomes.\nContact Steffen: https://sites.google.com/site/steffenkuenn/\nSocial Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffen-k%C3%BCnn-9b5b0616b/\nResearch Paper: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4643\nMORE INFORMATION\nLet's Talk Clean Air is produced for Camfil by DustPod.io \nABOUT CAMFIL’S CAO INITIATIVE\nThe Chief Airgonomics Officer initiative is started by Camfil, a leading manufacturer in premium clean air solutions and an advocate for access to clean air.\nThe Chief Airgonomics initiative is being driven at a time of urgency: sensitivities over air have heightened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, air pollutants are well known to damage the environment and the newly published WHO Air Quality Guidelines show us that air pollution is more damaging to human health than previously...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ADLBf-l6QPjBJIB2MvWEmg1M6BOgp1G9q5Vh_QRooqc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE3Nzk3LzE2NjYx/Nzk2MDktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}