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Adding plants to your workspace can have a positive impact on your well-being as well as serving as natural office decor. Whether you work from home or commute to your office, introducing some living greenery will breathe new life into your workspace and help you stay focused throughout the day.
Cooler weather, shorter days, and regular work and school schedules drive us inside, but healthy and hardy houseplants from Studley’s keep your home or office (or home office) fresh and vibrant. In this article, we take a look at how introducing some greenery into your workspaces can have a positive impact on your health and well-being.
Control Your Environment
Many things in our daily lives are out of our control, but what you bring into your workspace is completely up to you, Most of us do better when we know what to expect, so decorating and arranging your workspace in a way that makes you feel physically and emotionally comfortable is crucial to having a productive day.
Simply adding plants to your workspace can help to personalize or normalize your workspace, whether you are in a temporary location of your regular office. Houseplants bring nature indoors, instantly transforming a bland office into a comfortable and welcoming workspace. If you work in a shared office or have an open office layout, plants can also serve as natural workspace dividers without feeling like you are putting up a barrier between you and your coworkers.
Low light and low maintenance plants are perfect for offices and shared workspaces. We reccommend these plants:
- Chinese Money Plant
- Heart Leaf Philodendron
- Marble Queen Pothos
- Robusta Snake Plant
- Maki Podocarpus
- Candy Nephthytis
Reduce Stress & Improve Productivity
Our workspaces are meant to be dedicated to concentration and productivity. However, concentrating and being productive is difficult when you are stressed.
Plants have been shown to improve creativity, productivity and motivation in the workplace while helping you stay calm, relaxed and focused. If you find focusing during the day difficult, try adding some houseplants to your workspace. The difference may be more noticeable than you might expect!
Purify Indoor Air
According to scientific research from NASA and others, plants clean indoor air, stabilize carbon dioxide, and create comfortable ambient air humidity. Plants also boost healing, happiness, and productivity.
The #PlantsDoThat Inside infographic on Where We Live shows:
- Rooms with plants have fewer pollutants like VOCs (volatile organic compounds).
- Plants in our homes increase room humidity by 10%.
- Plants remove up to 90% of formaldehyde in a room.
Check out our naturally air-purifying plants and freshen the air in your workspace.
Studley’s can ship houseplants all over the country, but if you are local to the Rochester, NH, area, you can visit us in person and walk through our greenhouse. Our staff is always ready to answer your questions, make recommendations, and point out our favorites or new arrivals. Visit us today to find the perfect houseplants to add to your workspace!
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