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Cost effectiveness, or only a luxury? Figure it out.
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Even the highest paid people don’t always deliver 100% .
Mother nature is at fault. The hotter it gets in offices, the harder it is for your staff to concentrate. This means lowered performance. And it doesn’t matter how much you pay them. Scientific studies have proved it. Rooms with poor climate control quickly become an expensive cost factor.
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The optimal working temperature is around 20°C. Above this temperature, performance drops considerably. It’s simple to calculate what this means for your business.
Do you serve a large number of customers every day? Then the following research findings should particularly interest you. Starting even at 24°C room temperature, more than 20% begin to be dissatisfied. Even the most courteous and professional service on the part of staff is helpless when it’s hot.
You don’t have to wait until high summer before it gets too hot.
Good insulation, modern glass architecture on the one hand – and working men and women with a continually growing number of computers in offices on the other. This means that offices and other work rooms can heat up fast. Then, when the sun shines, it can really get uncomfortable – even with moderate outdoor temperatures.
And now for a sample calculation
Assume that a member of your staff costs 50,000 euros a year. For 220 workdays per year, this means 227 euros per day. And now, if you work in a city with a moderate climate such as Düsseldorf, you can expect at least 40 days in the year with outdoor temperatures over 25°C.* When your offices start to get hotter, performance drops: we can assume 20% less performance here (see plots above). This amounts to:
227 euros x 20% = 45 euros
45 euros x 40 days = 1,800 euros
That’s what it amounts to. Now multiply these figures by the number of your staff. We would be very surprised if the cost of installing GEA acqua in your company were not amortized within one year. By the way: we haven’t included your salary as executive in these figures.
[*Average number of officially hot days annually, i.e., with temperatures > 25°C, during the 10-year period up until 2002: 43.4 days. Taken from “Climate Data for the City of Düsseldorf, Germany, as published by the German Weather Service.]
As the courts have ruled: not over 26°C in an office
In addition, the Regional Court of Bielefeld, Germany, has recently ruled that the temperature inside an office may not exceed 26°C. It also ruled that, in case of higher temperatures, the office temperature must be at least 6°C lower than the outdoor temperature.
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