Green offices can also be found in homes, schools, churches and temples or shopping malls. Let's say that your office is already built, that your company rents its office space, or that it doesn't have the money for a green renovation. Just because you can't be the greenest on the block doesn't mean that you can't make some pretty big differences. The most important thing is to do what you can. And anything that you can do to improve even your own recycling habits at work is a lot better than doing nothing at all.
Every piece makes a difference.
Fortunately, smarter products and technologies are available, and they can be used to build, furnish, and operate better buildings and offices. Healthy and efficient offices save money for your company, benefit the environment by reducing pollution and the demand for resources and can make employees feel better physically. Boeing cut its lighting energy use up to 90 percent. These changes gave Boeing a two-year payback, a 53 percent return on investment. In addition, employee productivity went up 15 percent and absenteeism dropped by the same amount.