“As organisations navigate hybrid working, rethink their portfolios and attempt to create environments that justify the commute, it is increasingly clear that no single feature determines workplace success. Instead, the overall experience is created through the interplay of light, temperature, noise, furniture, technology, cleanliness, indoor environmental quality and more. Air quality has become a meaningful part of this conversation, not because it is the most important feature, but because it illustrates how environmental fundamentals shape day-to-day experience in ways that employees immediately feel.”
The article also raises the gap between user expectation and satisfaction for not just air quality, but other aspects of the workplace, such as, lighting, noise and temperature. So, while indoor air quality (IAQ) is an important and individual metric (for health, wellbeing and user satisfaction) in reality it is actually indoor environment quality (IEQ), in all its facets, that needs to be considered for those managing the workplace.
At Assurity Consulting, we’ve been providing such knowledge for over 40 years and would be delighted to get your IEQ walking in the air too.
Hidden in the air: The workplace features we overlook - Leesman