Wasting precious resources 😾

fancythat

Working life is not anywhere as near 9am to 5pm as it used to be.

Agreed, but London like many other cities is mostly hybrid working and hot desking, very few people are on the office five days/nights a week.

PaynesGrey

Some reasons. Staff who work in the evenings and through the night, cleaning and maintenance staff, security and security patrols, lighting systems that are complex and costly to power down, emergency regulations that require lighting to be on at all times.

Security lighting yes, there are numerous safety lighting systems which active with heat and movement, so nobody would ever be in the dark.

We were looking into office buildings (we were on a high floor with good all round visibility) floor after floor of empty desks, with all lights on.

Working life is not anywhere as near 9am to 5pm as it used to be.

We have movement sensors in our office, they are utterly awful.

I work in a northern city, in the winter it is dark by 3:30pm, I am part of a global team so I am often still on calls later, we have movement sensors on our lighting often I will be sitting still behind a monitor and I get plunged into darkness and have to wave my arms to get light and our office is a listed building and they were able to install that, so no excuse for new buildings.

PaynesGrey

Some reasons. Staff who work in the evenings and through the night, cleaning and maintenance staff, security and security patrols, lighting systems that are complex and costly to power down, emergency regulations that require lighting to be on at all times.

In which case it might be an idea for the government to be requiring more energy self sufficiency wherever possible in these buildings.

We have some spectacular lit up front garden Christmas decorations round where I live. I admit it brightens up the dark days but the Scrooge in me can't help seeing it as a huge waste of electricity.

And are they powered from a different city sometimes? So makes things more awkward?

Some reasons. Staff who work in the evenings and through the night, cleaning and maintenance staff, security and security patrols, lighting systems that are complex and costly to power down, emergency regulations that require lighting to be on at all times.

I LOVE the Christmas and Halloween tat, but do agree some lights need switching off in office buildings.

Perhaps we could dial down the Christmas and Halloween tat while we are at it.