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Hey, there. I’ve had a lot of visual sensitivity and flickering/strobing and vision-wobbling issues in my eyes since 2018 and tried everything in the workplace. Was raised with Occupational Health, and, over the last few years, I’ve been assessed at my desk in various departments and placed side-on from and away from windows. Had a brown desk to reduce glare a couple of times. Tried anti-glare glasses... I honestly think fluorescent lighting is the devil and is wrecking our eyes over time! Using the windows blinds were suggested to me as well, but my experience is that this is not always feasible when you work in an open plan office and you have colleagues complaining about their working environment now being made too dark, or staying quiet as you pull a blind down but making facial expressions to suggest they are having to squint to see things. :-/ As for coloured filters, these can really help with screen glare and white page glare. I struggled to read black text on a white page, and reading in the garden with the sun glaring off white or glossy pages was a no-no. I got my colour filters from Crossbow Education who supply schools and workplaces. Work can fund these for you as they did mine (by law, I think). I have the info pack that came with them about this if you wanted me to take a picture of that and the coloured screen and page filters and send pics to you somehow. There are 10 colours to choose from, and these can be doubled up to create a new filter. You ideally need to have an assessment in the workplace from someone trained, but I was so desperate and impatient to resolve my issue that I ordered my own assessment pack from Crossbow and told my mom what she needed to do to score me on each filter exercise. It’s a lengthy process, so it needs to be a person with good speed reading skills and patience. (My mom wasn’t the best person to do it, but we got there in the end!) As I mentioned above, an open plan office isn’t the best place to have these unless work can provide you with a fixed desk and your own monitor(s), because I was sadly unable to use mine due to sharing a desk when I’m supposed to have a fixed desk for my disability. Applying them involves sticking them to the monitor, so if you share a desk with others, you run the risk of damaging the filter as they are intended to stay there and can crease easily. Also, you’d have the issue of carefully storing it somewhere so others can’t damage it. I work from home now in natural lighting and hoping to stay this way. The funny thing is that my eye issues have calmed down immensely in terms of hurting in bright light. A change of environment to conditions I am more in control of seems to have helped. I never even got to use my filters due to this surprising outcome, but I keep them in their box just in case! Have you looked into Irlen Syndrome? This was suggested to me, and there are special opticians who can provide colour filter glasses. Similar to the concept of the filters from Crossbow. I have a leaflet with their details, too, if that would help. Long story short, no optician has helped me. They pick up nothing on their scans of the retina or optic nerve. Same with the eye hospital. What I have seems more of a neurological thing and not optical.

Thank you for your comprehensive response. Lots of useful references for me to follow up on. I am fortunate that work have said that I can work from home going forwards. I will definitely look at the filters. My other half is a teacher so I imagine she has a colleague that will be trained to assess on the best filters. You are so right though this is a neurological thing not an optical issue so hold very little hope that the optician can be of help. Thanks again