LED Lighting And Employee Productivity

Have you ever considered that it could be your lighting that’s holding employee productivity back?

Many employees suffer from reoccurring headaches in the workplace and it’s easy to feel unmotivated when you walk into fluorescent lighting. Fluorescent lighting can often be to blame for a number of workplace hazards. Retrofitting your office with the latest LEDs ensure that your employees experience a boost in productivity, experience less headaches and have a more natural level of light throughout the facility.

Upgrading to LEDs can have a big impact on the bottom line of your organization. When you consider an increase in productivity of just 1%, you can work to cut the payback period of your LED retrofit program. The payback period is also improved with the energy bill savings you’ll experience from the LED lighting. With the energy rating of LED v.s. Incandescent lighting, it’s likely that you could reduce your energy costs from lighting by up to 60%.

Most LED retrofit projects have a payback period of 3.5 years. The productivity improvements that you can see as a result of LED lighting often reduces that payback period to just a few months.

Dramatic improvements have been noted in scientific studies regarding lighting in the workplace. Many people that have made the switch over to LED lighting have suggested that there is a significant improvement in cognitive function and productivity from employees. A study completed by the International Journal of Industrial Economics compared fluorescent and LED lighting with a boost in worker performance by 8.3% in cognitive and visual tasks after the switch was made. Employees working under LED lighting had faster reaction times, increased activity in the workplace and reduced levels of fatigue.

More completed studies have suggested that using a combination of LED and natural lighting techniques worked to significantly improve employee morale and productivity. Choosing to configure LED lighting to mimic daylight conditions led to improvements with reduced sick days and employee sleep.

Commercial businesses are governed by the 3/30/300 rule. What this rule dictates is companies will typically have to spend around three dollars per square foot on their utilities, $30 for the rent and $300 on employees. If the building is 20,000 ft.² you’ll be spending $60 thousand in utilities $600 thousand in rent and $6 million in employees. When you work to reduce your energy costs with LED lighting, you could be reducing up to 50% on average which can represent $30,000 from your utility bills. Employee productivity is where you experience real savings. If you could experience an improvement of 5% on your productivity, this could represent roughly $300,000 in savings for your business.

The small change of upgrading your lighting could have a massive impact on your business over time. This is why so many businesses are changing over to LED lighting products so that they can generate fast improvements for their bottom line.

When you factor in other improvements such as the reduction in maintenance costs, energy savings, tax incentives and the potential for employee productivity improvements, the payback period for LED lighting improvements is roughly a few months for the average large business.

If you are interested in seeking out an LED retrofit project for your business, contact us today. We can make sure that you can access the best solutions in LED lighting for your location.