Nature at Work Benefits People and Performance
General
Biophilic design puts nature within reach of a workforce that spends roughly 90 percent of its time indoors, and even small choices, from daylight to a shaded terrace, can reshape how people feel, focus and perform.
Biophilia is the idea that people are drawn to nature and tend to feel and function better when they are connected to natural light, air, planting, views and materials. Biophilic design brings nature into the built environment and provides contact with the outdoors during the workday. The evidence shows health, mental clarity and wellbeing can improve when nature is part of the working day.
Tuuci’s new white paper, Biophilia Basics, gathers the research into seven benefits, spanning mental health and cognition, physical health and energy, and social and organizational health.