POUSSEletter 6: greening of offices

Welcome to POUSSEletter, the letter that cultivates your well-being at work.

This week, we share our complete guide (and 100% free!) to make your office an oasis of greenery and well-being.

On the program of the guide:

🔎 What is planting?
🌱 The unsuspected benefits of plants (which your offices cannot do without)
✨ Types of vegetation (your creativity is your only limit)
🤝 Our list of favorite plants to beautify your offices according to their brightness
✍️ The ultimate checklist of questions to ask yourself before getting started

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👉 Discover our space greening services .
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The theme of the week

GREENING YOUR OFFICES: THE BEST WAY TO RECONNECT WITH NATURE AT WORK

Harvard biologist EO Wilson states in his book “Biophilia” (1984) that humans have an innate tendency to seek out connections with nature and with other forms of life. The term biophilia , used since then, describes our spontaneous need for nature, whether at home or in the office.

Greening involves adding plants to an existing environment, such as an office, building, park , or city, to make it greener.

It is an increasingly common practice in urban spaces to improve air quality, mitigate the effects of the urban heat island, reduce stormwater runoff and improve the quality of life for residents.

In an office context, greening involves adding plants to the work environment to improve the quality of life and well-being of employees.

It inspires us

As you know, our mission at POUSSE is to reconnect all city dwellers to nature, in style, in all the places they live.

To accomplish this beautiful goal better and better, day after day, we are constantly learning about plants and their impact on humans.

We have scoured a number of scientific studies from around the world on our plant friends and their effects on our bodies and minds.

Here's what to remember:

👍 The benefits of plants on employees:

• +15% productivity
• +15% creativity
• Reduced stress (and pulse!)
• Reconnection to immediate nature (this is a need that city dwellers should not neglect!)
• Better overall immunity

🌱 The benefits of plants on the employer brand:

• -10% absenteeism, reduction in turnover
• A cleaner, healthier, greener working environment
• More aesthetic, more inspiring spaces, in which we enjoy working
• A strengthened corporate culture

🤝 What we remember:

• Green plants are not just green plants! Their benefits extend well beyond the aesthetics of a place.
• Greening your offices is one of the simplest, most sustainable and economical ways to have a better impact on the lives of employees and the perception of the employer brand.

I want to green my offices

Questions to ask yourself before getting started

• Which space to green (surface, number of rooms, brightness)?
• What budget ?
• What type of vegetation (potted plants, plant wall, plant logo, plant partition, terrace, etc.)?
• Which plants (pay attention to the available light: your favorite landscapers can help you )?
• What maintenance needs?

Discover the complete checklist in the free guide

POUSSE talks about it

In the offices of the Joko application: greening to create an inspiring work environment

Joko , the intelligent application that boosts purchasing power, makes it a point of honor to offer a pleasant and inspiring work environment to its Parisian employees. This is why it has chosen to green its premises, located in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, to create an atmosphere like at home.

Discover the greening of Joko offices made in POUSSE on the blog.

Read the article

The quote of the week

"People just don't like fluorescent lights in a building with no plants, no view, no natural light."
- Cary Cooper CBE, Professor of Organizational and Health Psychology at Manchester Business School

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