Office Plants

Most of us spend a third of our lives at work. The eight-hour workday often drags on; in winter, we arrive at the office before daylight and leave when it is already dark. A boring office interior, lack of color and lack of communication with wildlife can cause a feeling of deprivation and depression.

Productivity decreases, mood deteriorates, a person simply “burns out”, he loses the desire to act, creativity is at zero.

Office plants may be nature's missing link to increased productivity and job satisfaction. This is the best way to not only decorate your workspace, but also create a calm and harmonious environment in your workspace.

Office greenery is more than a trend or a timely business opportunity, and some studies show that the benefits of greening offices go far beyond aesthetics.

How do office plants increase productivity?

Scientific studies have shown that plants help increase concentration and relieve stress. Scientists monitored the productivity of workers in simple and green offices at two commercial offices in the UK and the Netherlands over several months. The purpose of the study was to assess differences in perceptions of air quality, concentration, and satisfaction with one's workplace.

It turned out that employees of “green” offices are 15% more productive. In addition, workplace satisfaction and air quality scores were also significantly higher than those in office workers without plants. In addition to the above, employees of greened offices were significantly less likely to experience poor health, headaches, and even colds. And this is quite reasonable, since plants in the office create a safe, “homey” environment.

How to choose plants for the office?

Ideally, it is better to entrust complex office landscaping to professionals - they will develop a general design concept that matches the image of your company, select flowerpots, correctly arrange plants and provide supportive care for them in the future.

If you decide to do landscaping yourself, there are several factors to consider:

Room area

The spreading Monstera is appropriate in a spacious office hallway. For rooms with a small area, it is worth choosing something more compact, for example, a small Dracaena - it grows quite slowly and is quite unpretentious in care.

Lighting

Often office premises have weak or even completely artificial lighting. If this is the case, choose shade-tolerant plants - Sansevieria, Zamioculcas. If your office boasts large windows and wide window sills, you can decorate them with light-loving plants, succulents, and flowering ones.

Watering

As a rule, in the bustle of business, watering office plants is often forgotten. Choose plants that can easily tolerate irregular watering or require infrequent watering - Bocarneya, any cacti and succulents.

Seasonality

Office plants should look perfect all year round and always please the eye. Therefore, it is worth abandoning plants with a limited period of decorativeness and plants that completely shed their foliage. These should be expressive evergreen crops, independent of the season and other factors.

Phytowalls as ideal office landscaping

Recently, living walls have become increasingly popular. The vertical garden is equipped with an automatic watering system that does not require connection to a water supply. Phytowalls are ergonomic, they save space and fit perfectly into the interior design of virtually any room.

Even a simple image of nature relieves stress, imagine what results can be achieved with the help of a phytowall?

Zoning space with plants

Using plants to create separation between work areas is a great idea, as every employee would like to have their own space! Use light partitions with hanging plants or plants in boxes. Partitions with ivy like Hedera, Cissus, Eschynanthus or unpretentious Chlorophytum look great.

Small plants on office tables

There is usually not enough space on the office desk, business papers, a computer, a smartphone and other equipment. A neat pot with a small plant – Echeveria cactus – will add a joyful note to your business routine and give a rest to tired eyes. It is believed that cacti neutralize harmful radiation from the monitor, but there is no evidence of the reliability of this information :-)

Number of plants

In an office space, a lack of plants and an excess of them are equally undesirable. Plants should not turn the office into a greenhouse - they are placed and used to create a space comfortable for work, not for living.

The optimal number of plants is calculated according to a simple principle: for every 10 square meters of space, at least one and at most three plants are needed.

For a small room - one large or similar group of smaller plants.

Summary

Office landscaping is not only an aesthetic pleasure. Plants in the office increase employee productivity.

Investments in office landscaping using plants will fully pay off by improving the quality of life of employees and their productivity.