Let there be light!

Office Lighting Designs

Office lighting can be overlooked when thinking about office design, but it can have a significant impact on the health of your staff and your company image.

Here are five tips to make your office lighting as good as it can be – for your workplace productivity as well as for the wellbeing of staff and impression on visitors.

Use as much natural light as you can

Natural daylight is one of the best assets in office design. Ideally, natural light should take the lead, with artificial lighting increasing the light to sufficient levels. The aim should be to make people feel connected to the outside world whilst being able to work comfortably. If you’re choosing a new workplace, this is such an important factor to take into consideration.

Good levels of daylight in an office bring so many benefits to your staff as well as your productivity. See research carried out by Cohere below with the World Green Building Council.

LEDs are the way ahead!

In terms of artificial lighting, fluorescent tubes have been around in offices for many years as they’re cheap to buy and fit, suitable to be installed in suspended ceilings and can light large areas. But problems with fluorescent tubes include flickering, buzzing and bulbs becoming dimmer with age, so the quality of light can be inconsistent. It’s time to move on!

A popular alternative is the LED light. In the past, LEDs have often been seen as an expensive option for offices, but in the long term they are more cost-effective than fluorescent lighting.

LEDs are also far more energy efficient than fluorescent tubes and other bulbs as they last far longer and use much less wattage to operate. Another environmental benefit of LEDs is that they don’t contain mercury and other chemicals found in fluorescents, which can be harmful to the environment.

All images below are from Ben Johnson Interiors client offices