Hired air conditioners for offices are not only effectively cooling working environments across the country, but also British office workers’ tempers!

Rentable air con units for offices – the ideal option

An effective workforce is usually a happy one. But pleasing staff is not just about offering attractive salaries, flexible working hours, incentives, and opportunities for career progression, etc. Providing a comfortable office environment can play an integral part in maintaining staff morale and ensuring tempers do not flare, particularly in the hot summer months. This is where the option to hire air conditioning units can prove invaluable.

‘Air con rage’: a growing problem for British companies

According to a recent uSwtichForBUSINESS.com survey, three quarters (74 per cent) of workers admit to arguing with colleagues over office temperature control. With the current economic climate already putting immense pressure on British businesses, the last thing employers and office managers need is for the fixed (or ‘built-in’) air conditioning system at their workplace to develop a fault or completely fail during a hot spell.

Unfortunately, so many fixed air con systems at UK offices are old, prone to breaking down, or they simply do not have the capacity to provide the required amounts of cool air (or extra boosts of it) where and when needed.

Why planning ahead is key

Office managers who have wisely taken the precaution of formulating a contingency plan (with the help of a specialist in air conditioning hire) can enjoy peace of mind knowing, should

they ever require rented air con units in a hurry, their chosen air con rental specialist (who offers a 24/7, year-round, emergency call-out service) will respond immediately to their urgent call.

Hard to reach areas

It is not only for the provision of emergency cool air, that portable air con units can be leased. In more modern, open plan offices, air can move more freely around and there is more likely to be a uniform temperature across the premises. However in older premises, there may be more individual offices, preventing the air conditioning unit from dispersing the cool air widely. In this instance, a portable air conditioning unit could ensure that all employees experience the same levels of comfort, no matter where they are seated. Of course, hiring units ensures that the office only spends money on cooling when they most need it (on a short-contract basis), and the units can be relocated at any time to the most cool air-deprived office areas.

Rentable air conditioning units for offices are reliable and cost-effective, and can be:

• Used immediately;

• Easily stored;

• The perfect ‘stop gap’ between the removal of an existing office air con system, and the installation of a new one; and

• Added to a fixed solution when extra air con is required.

During planned maintenance and servicing

It is not only when a cool air boost is needed, or when an office’s fixed air con system breaks down, that hired mobile air con units can save the day for business owners and office managers. During planned maintenance and servicing of a built-in system, rented mobile air con units could be used, to help sustain a comfortable working temperature for office staff until the planned work is completed.

All this means that, however much outside temperatures fluctuate, inside, productivity can continue to the required levels, without tension between staff interrupting and impacting upon individual and team performance – work can continue as normal, and goals for the summer period can be achieved.