6 natural elements to use in the office

Spain is one of the European countries where workers spend more hours at work. Unlike other members of the EU, the workday lasts 8 hours. This means that we spend a third part of the day at work. Since when we arrive at home we would like to feel like, well, home, there are a lot of companies that added to their offices some materials, most of them natural, that make workers feel comfortably, getting a better working environment and indirectly, increasing productivity. In this article we would like to talk about 6 of these natural elements that can help your office to be a place that, apart from working, everyone can work better.

Wood is one of the natural materials that can be incorporated to the office design. In walls, furniture of accessories, the wood acts like a thermal and electric insulation. The combination of different colours, textures and styles brings warmth to the workplace. A comfortable environment that is also favoured by cork, king of insulations and that can also be used as a decorative and useful element in the walls.

We need to add to this list of natural elements the metal, if we want to have a urban and actual decoration in our office. In shelves and decorative objects such as lamps we can use steal, copper and iron. In addition, metal combines perfectly with glass and useful applications can be found to separate different environments without using visual barriers. Marble is a natural stone that, even if it is normally used in housing, for some time now, it has started to be introduced in the office world, beyond the most noble spaces such as meeting rooms, and getting into walls and floors.

Finally, and in a decorative level, we can take into account the artisan elements or the ones with natural fabric. We mean materials like wicker, straw or bamboo, for example that we can add in trays, curtains or even chairs. We can’t forget about plants, that are probably the natural element most consolidated in offices. Everyone knows their ability to absorb the electromagnetic waves of the office devices, but plants and the other elements in this article will help to maintain us connected with nature while working and it will contribute to our physical and psychological well-being.