A few everyday changes to office habits would be a great start to encouraging a sustainable office within your business. These are simple tasks that could really help with minimising your companies C02 footprint.

1. Do you really need to print that: that’s the question you should ask yourself every time you walk towards the printer. Does it work better as an email? Do you really need a hardcopy?
2. Buying new Equipment:  make sure it comes with energy-saving certification this means the product had to meet a certain set of energy saving standards therefore is more likely to have impactful energy saving settings.
3. Hold the lift: where possible, encourage staff to take the stairs. Make Thursday your Stairsday and shut the lifts off for the day.
4. Right tool for the job: the days of scanning in one device and printing from another are over. Make sure your next printer purchase is a multifunctional device. This means fewer devices are plugged in as one machine can do it all.
5. Energy Saving Bulbs: everyone is familiar with energy saving bulbs in the home but many offices around Ireland are still using the fluorescent bulbs instead of LED panels. LED bulbs can produce the same amount of light as incandescent or fluorescent bulbs but use less energy or watts
6. Motion Sensor: install a lighting system that only works when needed. It saves you spending the day running around turning off lights.
7. Turn off your pc: at the end of the day we recommend turning off your pc for the instead of putting the pc into sleep mode. Sleep mode on newer machines use very little power but a pc that is turned off at the end of the day uses zero electricity and energy saving setting just can’t beat that.

With a few simple changes (most of which you can start today) you could save your business money while simultaneously helping the environment.