How to Embrace Office Green Spaces for Better Employee Engagement

Companies are incorporating green spaces as their environmental focus matures from simple recycling to more holistic sustainability, and these changes benefit both employees and companies, reports HR Dive . Green spaces in the workplace can enhance employee performance, with academic research suggesting they can relieve mental fatigue, thus improving performance, satisfaction, learning, inquisitiveness, and alertness. A study from the Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment showed subjects in a green environment scored much higher for crisis response, information usage, and strategy compared to a conventional environment. Green spaces, in addition to recycling, composting, reducing paper products, and offering public transportation incentives for workers, form an overall vision of sustainability, and as enterprises start improving sustainability practices, they may be in for a larger cultural shift. Experts say companies can make progress in enhancing energy efficiency with upgraded lighting and renewable energy. Waste reduction, including recycling and composting, is another popular jumping-off point. As employers make progress in one area, they may discover that they are only at the start of their sustainability cycle.