Task Lighting in Private Offices

if you have an on/off switch for a true private office (walls on 4 sides and a door that closes) it complies. No task lighting is needed. Task lighting is important to incorporate into any large open office space with individual work stations. Lots of people make a mistake with open offices and classify it as a multi-occupant space. An open office with 15 people isn't one multi-occupant space; it's 15 individual occupant spaces. You can't get compliance with a wall mounted on/off switch in an open office area where people are doing individual tasks. You need task lighting. That's what the note is about.

Kathryn is spot on. Thanks. I was going to say the same thing.

But can task lighting be provided by wall switches? In other words, in a double-occupancy "office room", if both workstations have a light switch near the desk that controls the ceiling light fixture over that workstation, will the credit requirements be met? thank you.

Lyle- It seems to me that individual control of the fixture over your own desk would qualify. After all, what's required is "individual control" for individual work stations, and that's exactly what you are providing.