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Studies into workplace wellness, productivity, and efficiency have all shown just how important the right lighting is for your office. And it makes sense – we’re diurnal creatures and light tells our brains on the most basic level when we should work and when we should sleep. But what lighting is best for the workplace? Lighting and productivity When we have the right lighting, we feel happier, healthier, and more energetic, which is good if you want to get things done. On the other hand, the wrong lighting can push the scales in the other direction, making us feel tired and ill, headachy, and frustrated. Lighting therefore has a very powerful impact on our state of mind and trying to be productive in a too bright or too dark space means that our resources have to fight against our brains to get into that state of mind, making us less productive as a result. Clearly, if you want your office to be a productive space, you need to get the lighting just right. LEDs vs fluorescent lig...

  Over the last couple of years, the workplace has evolved into a very different space. As people start to return back to the office in the New Year, employers need to ensure that these spaces are hygienic, welcoming, and suited to the needs of employees. After all, when employees feel that their organizations are taking an active role in their wellbeing, they are more productive, more engaged, and less likely to move on to a new place of employment. Here are some office design ideas and initiatives on how to welcome employees back to work. Create defined breakout spaces Breakout space within the office is a modern essential. Rather than crowding around one person’s desk (disrupting people around them and creating a difficult space to work), informal groups of employees can ‘break out’ of the office into a separate space. This can be used for meeting or presentation prep, informal meetings between department representatives, brainstorming sessions – any typical meeting or di...