Free Download: Office Lighting Guide
Office Lighting Guide
While it isn’t often thought about, there are few more important elements of office design than light. It affects everything from how people make decisions to how well people sleep. It is a minor consideration in many office fitouts but it can have a huge impact on the wellbeing and productivity of your staff.
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Why Lighting Matters
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3 Ways to Improve Your Office Lighting
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Lighting Throughout Your Workspace
Over the last few years, the way teams and companies work has changed massively, and so the role of the office has changed too. No longer are offices made up of cubicles and boardrooms. The Future Workspace is an open-plan, adaptable, technology-enabled workplace that meets the current and future needs of you and your people.
Poor lighting in your workplace can have a seriously limiting effect on your people. 68 percent of employees complain about the lighting situation in their offices as limiting their health and focus. Environments that are either too dark or too bright cause multiple health issues, including headaches and eye strain. This has a serious impact on employees’ productivity and wellbeing.
On the other hand, effective lighting can have a dramatic positive effect on the productivity of your people. One company found that when incorporating as much natural light as possible into their buildings (to save costs), productivity had doubled within 5 years. The results were attributed to the benefits of the natural light on the performance of their employees.
By utilising and enhancing natural light, office lighting systems can be optimised to suit our circadian rhythms – our natural body clocks that are driven primarily by light. In this way, you can significantly boost the performance of your people. Modern lighting can also help you toward your sustainability objectives by reducing energy consumption.