I work in a supermarket now, and I do usually enjoy my job, but during the winter I can miss the entire daylight hours in there, and have no clue as to what it's doing outside, whether it's been sunny, windy or what. A travelling circus could go by and I would probably not know! Well, I do get the occasional glimpse of weather when I go to the front of the shop, and when I'm in the warehouse I can hear when it rains hard, and sometimes the shoppers come in wet, and sometimes the back loading door is open and I catch a glimpse of day, but basically we're cocooned, like you I guess!
That window is a bit of a laugh isn't it..... designed to give the subconscious mind the impression that you're not so deep in the building I guess.