Green buildings increase productivity
By MONICA UNHOLD, The Daily Transcript
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

SAN DIEGO, CA – Employees working in green buildings phone in sick to work less frequently and are more productive than their counterparts who work in non-green buildings, according to a recent study by University of San Diego’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate and commercial real estate firm CB Richard Ellis.

The study compared LEED-certified or Energy Star approved building against those not certified as “green.”

Productivity increased in part because there were fewer employee sick days in the green as compared to the non-green buildings.

One More Reason to Go With Green Office Cleaning?

The study cited indoor air quality, natural light and ventilation as factors in increased employee productivity. “People like natural light, they like clean air,” said Norm Miller, academic director for USD’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate who participated in the study.

Psychologist have known for long time that the quality of light and air can have a big affective on a person’s mental and physical health.

While the study didn’t look at the effect of green office cleaning technologies and products on worker productivity, the study strongly suggests that a clean and environmentally friendly work environment could have an impact on a business’s bottom line.

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Four Star General Cleaning of New York has been in the Office Cleaning business for over 20 years and is now also a proponent of Green Office Cleaning technologies and products. We are committed to green office cleaning by utilizing only environmentally sound cleaning and maintenance programs; promoting water and energy conservation in its choice of cleaning equipment and systems; reducing waste and consumption of finite resources; and promoting and participating in recycling programs.

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