When Greensheet, a Houston-based business with 175 employees, continued to experience compressor failures, management could not ignore the seriousness of the problem. The company publishes 550,000 free newspapers per week, bringing buyers and sellers together through classified ads.
"We run our air conditioning system 10 months a year," said Ted Stiles, director of operations. "When the system is down, morale among employees really takes a shot. We had people getting sick from the heat and at one point came close to shutting down our operation until we could get the system running again. Because of our high humidity, opening windows really isn't an option."