How Your Workspace and Activities Can Affect Your Work Productivity

June 29, 2014 - PRLog -- Having things around you that inspire or relax you do not only keep stress at bay but this also boosts creative thinking and thereby making you more productive. Here are some tips and tricks to organizing your work space to help you do your job happily and efficiently. Lighting The nature of light in any work place is a major consideration when designing an area for work. Your decision of the kind of light source you put in your work area will directly affect the quality not only of your work but also the quality of your health. Andrew Jensen, a business growth, efficiency & marketing consultant, cited in anarticle (http://www.andrewjensen.net/how-office-lighting-affects-productivity/) how multiple studies show that lighting is a very effective way of increasing productivity in the work place. Any normal Joe out there could say ‘Hmm, I’d like a relaxing work area. So I guess I’ll use dimmed lights.’ Dim lighting, asides from causing sleepiness, also forces the eyes to work harder. The sleepiness that ensues causes lowered productivity and the eyes, trying to work so hard, eventually succumb to eye strain. However, if we go the other way and say that we use fluorescent lighting instead. This kind of area lighting, which is much more common in the workplace tends to start up migraines and further prevents the eyes from focusing properly. These conditions coming from artificial lighting are big negatives when it comes to work productivity.  So what might you ask is the best source of lighting for the workplace? The answer is so simple that it’s almost a no-brainer. Light from the sun is your best bet for increasing your productivity. Daylight not only helps you work better by helping you see things in the best light possible, it also protects your eyes against too much strain. This helps prevent eye strain and further protects those who already have eye conditions. Further benefits of natural lighting extends to better mood, higher satisfaction, better behavior and even better hormonal balance. Work places who have renovated for natural light further benefit from a smaller power bill. Now isn’t that illuminating! Color

Although we might not think too much of the color of the walls of our work area,research (http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/Pantone.aspx?pg=1938...) done by the Pantone Color Institute (http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/index.aspx) begs to differ. Their research shows that color has a direct bearing on the behavior and productivity of workers. One such example for the effects of color on employees can be given; employees in a work area that was colored blue complained to management that the work area was too cold. Management consulted expert and were advised to repaint the work place in a red hue. The results were very surprising! Workers started taking sweaters off. Oh! Did I mention that the management did not even change the temperature of the work area by one degree? Surprising indeed.
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