Accurate indoor Air quality monitoring and control can improve employee wellness, engagement and productivity.
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the people who decide how offices look paid little attention to ventilation—an invisible variable that determines whether people can think well at their desk and whether coughs and colds will spread within a company.
Most buildings are not designed to limit the spread of infectious diseases (with the exception of hospitals). In fact, architects in recent decades have designed buildings with the goal of making them airtight. The focus was on energy efficiency, but it has the downside of concentrating indoor pollutants— from our lungs and the chemicals emanating from chairs, carpets, and cleaning agents.
A recent Harvard study on the health of several hundred office workers around the world found that people performed better on cognition tests when the ventilation rate in their working environment was higher. Another study found a reduction of worker performance even at indoor CO2 levels that many researchers had previously assumed were perfectly fine.
In the past, individuals could not easily tell if a building was properly ventilated. With the Airify Monitoring Platform, employers and building owners will have real-time data to ensure that their spaces meet acceptable-air-quality standards. Knowing when to increase ventilation and filtration will make everyone healthier and more productive.