(China, Shanghai) A survey on the “White-collar office environment satisfaction and its impact” conducted jointly by Philips Lighting and the experts of electric lighting at Fudan University has officially released its final report. The project conducted surveys on the entrance of more than 90 companies and their employees in four cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Shenzhen and found that the office environment and lighting effects have a significant impact on the employees' work mood and even company preference and loyalty. The results of this survey report will help company management realize how to improve their office environment so that employees can work happily and efficiently. It will also provide meaningful reference information for office interior design and lighting design.

For most people, eight hours or more of each working day is spent in the office, so each of us can feel the importance of the office work environment. However, what is the connection between the working environment and the employee's mental state and even work efficiency? From the report of this survey, we can see that there are many factors that affect the quality of the office environment, including office space, lighting environment, temperature, air circulation, humidity, and noise. Among the many office environment factors, the workspace and light environment have the greatest influence on employees' company preference. For example, 95% of white-collar workers interviewed think that improper lighting may cause eye discomfort, mainly due to eye fatigue, dry eyes, and blurred vision; 31% of white-collar respondents also believe that improper lighting may also cause a decrease in work efficiency. .

Philips LED office lighting environment Office lighting environment is so important, then the current status of China's big cities are satisfactory? First, the illuminance is not high, Philips' survey report shows that the measured white-collar workbench illuminance is an average of 343.75Lx, lower than the national GB50034-2004 "architectural lighting design standards" recommended high-end office illumination standard 500lx, Only slightly higher than its recommended standard for office illumination of 300 lx; ​​Second, in different locations of the office, the illuminance of the workbench varies greatly, showing unevenness. In general, in the integrated light environment of natural lighting and artificial lighting, different office areas Workbench illuminance floats in the integrated light environment of natural lighting and artificial lighting (200.7-1843.8Lx), the maximum illuminance can be as much as 9 times the minimum illuminance; 3. There is glare phenomenon, 23% of the white-collar workbenches under test Glare in the corresponding visual angle; Fourth, there is a strobe phenomenon, 4% of white-collar work stations in the surveyed companies will have strobe, 6% of the aisle position will appear strobe; Fifth, natural light is insufficient, Of all the offices surveyed, only 12% use appropriate natural light assistance, and a quarter of white-collar workers want to increase their office lighting. More natural light.

The problems that exist in office lighting may cause employees to feel sluggish after a long period of work, and even cause dizziness and other physical discomforts, affecting physical and mental health. And an indoor setting that is reasonably designed and applied with lighting can effectively improve the quality of the office environment and enable employees to face the challenges of work. The pros and cons of the office environment will greatly affect the employee's preference and loyalty to the company. Therefore, modern company management should raise the design of the office environment to the strategic level. For this reason, the investigation report also put forward effective suggestions on how to improve the existing office lighting, including reducing glare, improving uniformity of illumination, properly managing and increasing natural light, and regularly maintaining the lamps, replacing the light source of severe light failure in time. And luminaires to ensure that the average illumination of the worktable meets the national recommended standards.

The lighting of the office is an invisible assistant when people work, and it is also the visual source of the office environment design. The investigation report of Philips' "Satisfaction of White-collar office environment and its impact" has analyzed the effect of office lighting on the work environment. The survey results obtained will provide a useful reference for the current interior design of the office.