The Secret Is In The Plants — How To Boost Your Business’ Productivity Post Pandemic

Many workplaces are reopening post lockdown and workers are expected to return to their workspaces. If there’s to be any productivity that employers can be proud of, these workspaces need to be attractive, healthy and relaxing. The ambiance should be one that helps relieve stress and build employee morale.

How can employers make this happen?

By turning to plants.

No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. You read that correctly, plants!

Empirical evidence from The Journal of Psychological Anthropology shows that adding plants to the home or office offers many benefits such as relieving stress and improving attention span: two rewards that help to increase overall productivity.

The key to harnessing the power of plants to make employees more productive is their design, installation, and maintenance. The approach to setting up plants around the workplace is most successful when it’s strategic, detailed, and done by professional interior decorators.

Choosing the right interior design firm can be a bit of a challenge, but these 3 tips will help make the process easier for you.

Choose a firm that:

Has tons of experience

There’s an old proverb that says “new brooms sweep clean, but old ones know the corners”.

If you analyze this proverb in the context of interior design firms and their experience, you’ll realize that it’s true. The new firms may do a good job but it’s those with more experience that know where pitfalls may be and can help you to make better choices that will be beneficial to you — 30 years trumps 3 any day!

Offers bespoke services

Your company is unique therefore the services you receive should cater to those unique needs. Your interior design company must deliver to you the concepts you ask for and the products you want all the while staying within the budget you agreed on.

Keeps up with trends

Styles and trends change constantly. A good interior design firm is one that can give you design ideas that are fresh, contemporary, and can transform your workplace into a hub of productivity and quality performance.

If you’re going to go the route of bringing plants into your workspace, you’ve got to bear in mind that your design should be aesthetically pleasing, complementing the workspace in a way that exudes quality, and demonstrates that much thought went into the concept and layout.

What’s equally as important is the health of the plants you use — the healthier the better. If you’re an employer in Northern and Southern California, you’re no stranger to quality service and therefore shouldn’t drop the ball when it comes to an opportunity to improve your workspace and worker productivity.