Revive your office for the new year. Add a wide variety of houseplants to make it happen. Don’t get too excited, though, or you might wet your plants. But…seriously, your garden variety houseplants offer you, the clients and everyone who enters your office so many benefits. 

Here are six to get you started down the indoor garden path. 

1. Reduce Stress

In with the plants, out with the stress. We often equate indoor plants with being in “the nature.” Research shows that natural environments evoke a different and more positive response in humans than urban environments do.

Plants give us the feeling like we’re away from work and our normal lives or on a vacation. Plants help us to relax, enjoy the tranquility, to simply exist in the moment. 

With the variety of shapes, sizes, and colors that plants come in, they are a great way to fill blank spaces in your office and reduce your stress and the stress of anyone who enters your office domain while plants are looking all pretty and stuff. 

Plants provide a calm, serene, and peaceful atmosphere, so say hello to plants and bye-bye to stress. 

2. Clean Air

Plants suck up the toxins in the air and help to purify the air in the office. You, your fellow employees, delivery folks, and clients all see the plants in your office as little air purifier machines that are naturally helping to scrub the air clean and improve the air quality in your office. 

People even know some types of plants for their air purifying abilities. Some common office plants you can use to spruce up your office, are known air purifiers, and can help everyone breathe easier are Devil’s Ivy, Peace Lilies, and Spider Plants. Cleaner air provides a healthier environment for you and all who enter your office areas where the plants live.

An added benefit to the reduction of toxins in the air is plants can improve the health of the employees who work in the office, which can reduce the number of sick days you and other employees need to take out of the office.

3. Increase Focus and Productivity

Research studies show that plants create a more pleasant work environment. Research also shows that when employees engage with their surroundings such as plants, they have greater output and have an easier time remaining focused.

Plants can also absorb sound and reduce the noise and background chatter in the office. An office with a quieter and more pleasant environment is more conducive to focus and productivity because it reduces distractions. You read that right. Taking the time to stare at, smell, and even talk to plants can help you to focus better on your work – ultimately making you more productive. 

4. Creates a Welcoming Environment 

Which Plants quickly and easily add a cheerful and inviting touch to an office, creates a warm working environment. Let’s face it, most of us stare at a screen all day while we work. If we can take a moment to stare or even glance at a plant or two, it can reduce fatigue and eyestrain from staring at those screens. Plants provide us with a pleasant visual break. 

5. Inspire

When plants in the office act as décor, they can often inspire – you, other employees, and your clients. Nothing makes people want to spend more time in your space than a wall covered in greenery, a grouping of potted succulents or desks and windowsills draped with potted plants.

Bright colors and vibrant smells can get the creative juices flowing, so plants can stimulate our senses, make the ideas flow, and pull you out of a creativity slump. 

6. Mood Booster

Plants make us happy. Our connection to nature puts an oomph in our step. When there are plants in an office, it reconnects us to nature and gives us a major boost in our mood. Weaving nature into our work environment can help us feel better at work and work better in general.

With so many benefits, it’s easy to see why plants should be part of your office décor and lifestyle. The fact of the matter is that we spend almost as much time at work as we do at home. Plants helps us to create a work environment that is healthier, more pleasant, more productive, and so much more.