The Green Premium for Green Offices
During the time known as the Orange Era, citric cleaning products were brought to the market boasting of environmental safety, but left a stubborn mindset that these cleaning products were high-priced and not as good as conventional products. The good news is that we are now in the Green Era, and the newer products are only 2% to 4% more high-priced than commonly-used products. We’re slowly discovering that the new generation of Green Products are as good or superior than the products now in use by cleaning services.
One of the issues of the Green transition for any company is the costs for any project, and it is interesting to learn that “Going Green” has other benefits that can offset and overwhelm the modest cost of Green cleaning. We all want a clean building, but we should also want a healthy building, and using a Green Clean janitorial service is the way to have both. In the end, you will find that this transition is a financially-smart decision.
We are finally learning that traditional cleaning products are harmful to the workers using them, but to everyone who works in the office. Constant and routine exposure to secondary levels of perilous chemicals will have an affect on your employees. Therefore, changing the cleaning products in your business and working with a Green janitorial firm can be a financially-smart decision.
Employee absenteeism is a negative cost factor to your company. Your employees are the source of business and revenue for your company. You might think these costs are a problem for the insurance company, but the costs for these employees contribute to the premium increases paid by the company. While some costs are paid by the employee, the health insurance costs are a significant part of company expenses. Obviously, healthier employees will help reduce health insurance premiums.
While thinking about Green Premiums, think about the value of a more alert and productive workforce. We have all found ourselves in a situation where something triggers a headache, depressed feeling, or aggravation of a condition. It make by a powerful smell, second-hand smoke, or diesel exhaust. Your office can be filled with small detractors from worker productivity.
On the marco scale of things, the well-being of a company’s workers ripples out into the world. The cost of caring for sick, debilitated workers is a societal issue. The trash and waste discharges of a company leaves the facility that has been cleaned to be handled by the sanitary services outside our facility. This affects our taxes and our health issues elsewhere.
As we think about the Green Premium, it is realized in savings through healthy employees. Health insurance, health costs, and taxes are part of the overall equation that we pay in one form or another. Therefore, the 2-4% costs of moving to a Green workplace seems powerfully overwhelmed by the health and tax cost savings.
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