Businesses today are constantly striving to create workplaces that enhance office productivity and increase employee well-being, all the while improving operational efficiency and energy savings.
The installation of state-of-the-art lighting can contribute to an enriched working environment. When done right, your office’s lighting system improves offices productivity and positively impacts the workplace experience.
When looking to improve the workplace environment with a refurbished interior design fit out, lighting cannot be overlooked. Intelligent light systems like state-of-the-art LED lighting does more than just illuminate your new workplace design.
Below, we shed light on five ways LED lights can boost employee productivity and brighten up your employees’ workday.
1. LED lights offer adaptable lighting solutions
The modern office setting is more modular in its approach compared to its contemporaries. Shouldn’t its lighting system be designed in the same way? Intelligent LED light fittings afford your office space flexible design solutions to provide adaptable illumination according to your employees’ needs.
When it comes to computer workstations, breakout areas for spontaneous discussions, a lab or drafting room, or team workspaces, LED lights can be fitted into dynamic light fixtures to provide flexible workplace lighting. And these help prevent work-related health issues and ensure that your employees continue to feel highly motivated to be productive throughout the day.
2. They provide relief for hardworking eyes
The proliferation of technology means many activities and functions carried out in today’s offices require the use of computers. The glare emitted from computer screens can become especially strenuous throughout the day, resulting in work-related health issues such as eye fatigue, light sensitivity, eye dryness, or difficulty focusing.
Artificial light can also be detrimental to an employee’s health and productivity. When inadequate and poorly installed, lighting can cause headaches and eye strain.
Using the right LED lighting system eliminates detrimental dazzling effects from light sources like glare, prismatic optics, as well as undesirable reflection, cowls, and shade. LED lighting technology ensures high illumination power in an aesthetically pleasing manner while minimizing the dazzle effect associated with artificial light.
3. They increase safety and savings
Workplace injuries such as trips, slips and falls occur more often in commercial settings with inadequate or outdated lighting systems. Occupational workplace injuries and illnesses can be detrimental to employee productivity and well-being.
The employees’ inability to work due to a workplace injury results in missed work increased compensation costs (both in time and money), and a negative public perception.
A safe working environment increases productivity, produces happier employees, and attracts highly qualified talent.
When installed with an intuitive lighting system, LED lights can save employers energy, reduce costs, and improve workplace safety. Any commercial setting can be at risk for workplace injuries, but by providing lighting fixtures that utilize flexible dimming, presence detection, and low maintenance requirements, offices can save on running and maintenance costs, keep all occupants safe, and future-proof office designs.
4. They create a productive ambience with color temperature
The color temperature of your office’s light sources can affect productivity, especially in geographical regions with varying seasons. During the dead of winter, when the sun sets earlier, office productivity can dip. Read more about red light therapy at home or in the office here.The winter blues or seasonal affective disorder (SAD) that affects many employees can be addressed with light therapy.
In workplace settings, even without access to daylight, employees can feel awakened and energized by “blue-enriched” light. LED lights can emit higher color temperature light sources that appear blue-white, which can have a positive effect on mental alertness, vitality, and acuity while increasing work performance and reducing daytime sleepiness and fatigue.
5. They allow you to take control of your lighting
A strategic approach is required to illuminate all areas of your office. From the reception area and conference rooms to hallways, each work zone needs a tailored lighting solution that addresses the attributes of that space.
A connected lighting system that employs LED bulbs creates light settings that can be personalized to strategically meet the spatial needs of a specific area while establishing an optimal work environment. A smart lighting system that integrates with other technologies such as the Internet of Things achieves high savings while keeping employees comfortable, happy, and productive.
Letting the light in
Renovating with LED lights will provide your office environment with more than just operational efficiency and energy savings. LED lighting supports employee productivity and their well-being, creating a workplace setting that works for everyone.
AUTHOR BIO
Ajay Awtaney is co-founder of Nakashi General Trading LLC, an electrical lighting company in Dubai catering to the needs of clients and projects requiring quality lighting products and solutions. Nakashi General Trading LLC today is an approved vendor of reputable organisations (Jumeirah, Engineering Office, Meraas, Musanadah and Thumbay, to name a few) for supplying lighting products.
