Office Greenery: A Simple Solution for a Healthy, Productive Office

To redesign your office space, you don't necessarily need a complete design overhaul. Often times simple, inexpensive design solutions have the power to transform your office environment significantly. If you're looking for an easy way to boost your employees' productivity, reduce your team's stress, and keep your office space healthy and clean, consider adding greenery to your space. Plants are not only beautiful and aesthetically pleasing, but they're natural air purifiers and stress reducers—and it's no surprise that we're raving about office greenery as one of 2014's coolest office design trends.

Improve air quality with plants.

Greenery lowers your team's stress and boosts their health.

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ature and prefer to be surrounded by these types of environments, regardless of the types of work they're executing. Plants neutralize artificial lighting, balance humidity, and regulate temperatures, making your office a more suitable environment for your team to accomplish tasks and projects. Studies have proven that cleaner work environments increase the amount of fresh, new, innovative ideas that teams create. Plants make people feel comfortable and relaxed, allowing for your employees to think clearly, more creatively, and more quickly with greater self-motivation and drive. By providing a natural space that your employees will want to work in every day, they can accomplish more, give themselves more time to get creative, and make time to interact with their colleagues. When your team is more productive and works in an environment that supports their needs, they're happier, more satisfied, and more engaged. Think about adding potted plants, flowers, and even green walls—walls covered with mosses, vines, and other flowering plants—to your office space. Not only will your office be more aesthetically pleasing and impressive to all who visit, but it will also improve your team's morale, contribute to healthier lifestyles, and help create a cleaner, greener, more environmentally conscious world.