Almost everyone knows how poor outdoor air quality affects their health and wellbeing, but not a lot of people know that indoor air quality can be worse. There are multiple ways that indoor air quality has an impact on your Prattville, AL, business.
Indoor Air Quality Affects Human Cognition
Air pollution has an impact on the brain and nervous system and affects thinking, creativity, memory and other cognitive functioning abilities. Particulate matter creates oxidative stress and inflammation of the central nervous system. This effect is often associated with sick building syndrome, which is sometimes alleviated with proper HVAC maintenance.
Employee Productivity
Indoor air pollution affects indoor air pollution in many ways. Humans exhale carbon dioxide, and in crowded meeting rooms with little ventilation, carbon dioxide reduces the ability to focus and increases drowsiness. Fine dust might seem harmless, but it can cause brain inflammation, which affects concentration.
Increased Medical Leaves and Absenteeism
Poor air quality not only creates medical conditions that employees never had previously, but it can also exacerbate medical conditions they already had before the company employed them. One long-term study found that air pollution exposure affected sick leave up to 20 years later.
Higher Pre-Term Births
Decreased quality of indoor air doesn’t just affect employees at work, but it affects their home lives as well. Researchers at NYU studied the economic burden associated with preterm births linked to air pollution.
Employee Retention With Healthy Indoor Air Quality
If employees have the option, they won’t want to stay at a business with poor air quality and will look for other places that have a healthy work environment. This means the companies that don’t take care of their air quality will spend more time, money and energy posting jobs and interviewing than it would take to address their air quality problems.
Don’t let poor air quality affect your business. Contact Sensigreen Heating & Air today to have our knowledgeable professionals help you create a healthy atmosphere and take care of your air quality issues.
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