Workspace has a direct relationship with the mood and productivity of today’s office workers. The following ideas for creating a workspace for optimal productivity can help you make the most of your office space.

Bring nature into your home

Plants are a useful solution to beautify your desk and improve the air quality in your workspace. Research shows that employees in plant-filled workspaces are 15% more productive.

Optimize natural light

According to a study, optimizing the amount of natural light in the office significantly improves the health and well-being of workers, leading to increased productivity and performance.

If you can’t get some sun at your desk, take a walk outside. Daylight exposure is important for maintaining the body’s circadian rhythm, which helps manage cognition, serotonin production and digestion.

Healthy eating

When employees eat healthy breakfasts, lunches, and snacks, productivity skyrockets. Nutritious foods provide employees with the essential vitamins and minerals their brains need to function well.

Keep healthy snacks at your desk. The most easily forgotten nutritional rule in a stressful working atmosphere is to eat snacks. Snacks have an important place in a healthy diet. To boost metabolism and provide energy, eat two snacks between lunch and dinner. Fresh fruit, dried fruit, nuts like peanuts or walnuts, milk and yogurt are ideal foods to snack on. Maybe keep them in a drawer or the fridge in the company campus’s inspiring cafe!

Wear noise-canceling headphones

Try a set of noise-canceling headphones for times when you’re doing work that requires intense concentration. Headphones can “serve as a visual signal to your coworkers” that you are not to be disturbed unless it is absolutely necessary.

Feel free to use them on a regular basis. Show that you’re still part of the team. Try a “headphone code” that coworkers use to indicate their concentration level. Two headphones mean ‘Leave me alone. I’m concentrating. ‘ One ear in and one ear out means ‘Ask before interrupting me.’ And both headphones mean ‘I can’t interrupt.’

Get up and move

You don’t need a standing desk, but you do need to sit less.

Scientist Kathy Bowman has discovered that in today’s world, there is now a new group of people who are ‘sedentary’. These people sit all day but still squeeze in an hour of exercise in the hope that it will help balance out their potato work days. But you can’t compensate for eight hours of quiet work with one hour of exercise each week.

Many employees feel that they don’t have enough time in their busy workday to get up and move around. Exercise doesn’t have to mean running a marathon. The main goal is to get employees to sit less and move more. This can be done through making simple changes such as stretching once every hour, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, and parking in the furthest part of the parking lot.

Try walking meetings. Try doing jobs that allow you to be proactive. Forget about stuffy boardroom meetings and get outside!

Sit with correct posture

Adjust your chair and computer screen to force yourself to sit tall. Low quality chairs lead to fatigue and even back problems, thus reducing work productivity.

You shouldn’t be craning your neck to look at your screen – it affects productivity. Neck pain is common among people who work on computers all day, so it’s important to make small, intentional changes to reduce pain symptoms as much as possible.