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GrannyGravy13 Thu 16-Oct-25 10:28:34

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.

GrannyGravy13 Thu 16-Oct-25 10:27:23

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.

fancythat Thu 16-Oct-25 10:27:02

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

Galaxy Thu 16-Oct-25 10:26:29

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

Seb1 Thu 16-Oct-25 10:23:32

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.

MaizieD Thu 16-Oct-25 10:20:36

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.

Magenta8 Thu 16-Oct-25 10:18:10

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.

fancythat Thu 16-Oct-25 10:15:19

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

PaynesGrey Thu 16-Oct-25 10:11:48

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.

Cossy Thu 16-Oct-25 10:09:15

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

StripeyGran Thu 16-Oct-25 10:03:33

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

GrannyGravy13 Thu 16-Oct-25 10:00:34

I was in central London yesterday and was astounded that still the office buildings are fully lit up at nearly midnight.

Not a few, but all of them.

I appreciate that it is our capital city, there were lots of tourists.

But, and it is a rather large but we as householders are constantly being advised to cut down on energy usage and wastage to conserve our planet.

Ed Milliband is pushing his agenda on covering green fields with solar farms, even if the consumer gas prices halved our household energy costs would continue to rise due to the rollout of renewable energy and the infrastructure needed.

Maybe it’s time to turn a good percentage of these lights off?