Science shows incorporating nature in the workplace improves worker happiness and creativity to the bottom line

Science shows incorporating nature in the workplace improves worker happiness and creativity to the bottom line

For most of us, the physical workplace of ours may be even, bland, depressing, and dark dysfunctional. Windowless cubicle farms and airless open plan floors are able to eliminate inspiration and have a toll on worker efficiency, perhaps even the overall health of theirs.

But a relaxing pattern is actually taking root in workplace design: nature.

The good effects touch on everything from worker happiness as well as imagination to enhanced efficiency, decreased absenteeism, much better staff retention, enhanced earnings, as well as the much better power to draw in the greatest employees.

It is all depending on the concept of biophilia - the instinctive affinity that people have with the natural world along with other living systems. And it is much easier to have in the office than you would think.

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