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Energy Efficient Office
An Energy Efficient Office is just as important as an Energy Efficient House. Afterall, it's often our home away from home especially for those who spend long hours at work.
If it's not in use, turn if off.Many offices leave everything on all the time. This might be necessary for some things such as the fax machine and security lighting or for offices that remain open 24 hours a day. Many things, however, don't need to stay on or even plugged in. Even turned off, electronics and appliances use some energy any time they are plugged in and on stand by mode. Certain things like shredders or televisions that are not used on a regular basis can be unplugged and even more things can be turned off at night and over the weekend and holidays when employees are gone.
Use Sleep Modes
Many of the same good energy saving habits we have developed at home can be used at work also and Energy Efficiency at the office is just good business.
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Whether you spend a little time or most of your time at work, an Energy Efficient Office saves energy and money and helps the environment and a cleaner environment is good for employee moral, isn't it?
For those times when you're popping in and out, using the computer here and there, it's not appropriate to turn the computer on and off each time you go away from your desk. You can use the sleep mode. While you're away, the computer goes to sleep using much less energy and when you come back you just wake it up and start working. Some fax and copy machine also have this sleep mode feature. Special Note: Be aware of computer screen savers. They use excessive amounts of energy.
