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Office plants show no measured productivity gain per head
Indoor plants lower blood pressure and quicken reaction times in controlled settings; the field trials that would turn this into a productivity line per head came back null.
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35 factorsheets carry the studies for and against, each with how firm that evidence is.
- Indoor plants lower anxiety.
- Nature Space (incl. Water) lowers anxiety.
- Indoor plants probably lower stress.
- The evidence is very uncertain whether water features affect stress.
- Water features probably raise restorative behaviour.
- Indoor plants probably raise mood.
- Indoor plants probably raise satisfaction.
- Water features probably raise mood.
- Indoor plants probably raise restorative behaviour.
- Water features probably raise calm.
- Indoor plants probably raise social interaction.
- Indoor plants probably raise calm.
- Indoor plants probably raise positive affect.
- The evidence is very uncertain whether water features affect social interaction.
- Indoor plants probably raise comfort.
- The evidence is very uncertain whether water features affect positive affect.
- Water features probably raise beauty.
- Indoor plants probably lower heart rate.
- Indoor plants probably raise productivity.
- Water features probably lower heart rate.
- The evidence is very uncertain whether water features affect physical activity.
- Indoor plants probably raise directed attention.
- Indoor plants lower negative affect.
- The evidence is very uncertain whether water features affect place attachment.
- Indoor plants probably lower blood pressure.
- Water features probably raise satisfaction.
- The evidence is very uncertain whether connection with natural systems affects sense of safety.
- Water features probably raise directed attention.
- The evidence is very uncertain whether water features affect comfort.
- Indoor plants probably lower fatigue.
- The evidence is very uncertain whether water features affect fascination.
- The evidence is very uncertain whether indoor plants affect working memory.
- Indoor plants probably raise sustained attention.
- Indoor plants raise learning outcomes.
- The evidence is very uncertain whether water features affect cortisol.