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A Taste of Nature Can Provide Balance and Calm During the Workday
Companies like Ford and Atlantic Packaging use outdoor meetings, walking groups, and nature elements to improve employee calm, focus, and stress management, wellness directors said.
- Companies are promoting outdoor meetings and organized nature programs like the 2024 Nature challenge, while Ford Motor Company redesigned its Dearborn, Michigan campus with native plants, paths and pavilions.
- Designers and employers cite research showing that employees and hybrid workers report outdoor time invigorates and calms, helping them feel relaxed and refreshed, psychotherapist Anna Rose Smith and Erin Mantz said.
- Design teams changed layouts so that offices sit in floor centers with tall windows and parking moved to encourage short walks past natural features, while employees bring nature inside by collecting petals, playing bird songs, uploading sunrise photos, and holding walk-and-talk meetings.
- Employees report immediate benefits, adopting outdoor habits such as Atlantic Packaging's 'Walk it out Wednesdays' and dog walks, to reset and refocus, Schusler said.
- Urban and cold-weather limits mean that companies and workers adapt by bringing nature indoors, holding meetings on park benches and using mobile devices or Zoom meetings to extend outdoor access.
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