Kamis, 22 April 2010

Plants Reduce Stress and Increase Productivity in Offices


Recent research at the University of Texas and Washington State University in the United States and the University of Surrey in England has shown that the distribution of the plants around the office workplace, both lower stress and improve employee productivity.

Texas experiment, participants were tested while using a computer program that is designed specifically for the test. The test is designed in cubicles that replicate the average office environment are done. Participants were shown a series of random symbols, and then to their levels of stress, monitored based on blood pressure and their productivity relative to the response.

The tests were then run in environments with and without are the most common types of indoor plants often seen in situations of office cell. The study results showed that participants were in Texas, less stressed and better reaction times when the plants are available. A computer program to test productivity and induce stress is developed specifically for this experiment. One hundred symbols were randomized sequences identical to each subject, and represented the only variable to test the presence or absence of plants.

Plants are in such a way that they can be seen within the boundaries of the subject positioned as they look at a computer terminal. concentrate Besides the ability to react faster and showed react the study found that only increases with the plants in the view subjects' ability by as much as 12 percent, as well as enable them to recover from stress within five minutes .

Almost identical results were performed in a similar study at Washington State University is available, essentially using the same test procedure. When the plants were placed around the sides of a small area on the market, subjects felt less stress (indicated by lower systolic blood pressure) and how UT researchers have discovered, the WSU study showed that the issue of the reaction about 12 percent faster, while to test them at a good standard computer.

The third study, conducted in England's University of Surrey, examined the effect of strategically placed plants to create an office to reduce the noise level. The plants were found to significantly reduce noise and thus increases the productivity of employees. Even if something is difficult to quantify, most office workers familiar with the effects of noise pollution from the source. If you work in an office, just think back only to the last time you take a break because you simply can not bear the noise

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