Our recent green-fingered successes.
We've been busy adding a sprig of nature to workplaces across the South.
Serco learn the hard way!To try and save money, Serco tried to look after their Nature at Work installed plant displays themselves. Look what happened…“We tried looking after our office plants ourselves but it just didn’t work!As a cost-cutting exercise, we decided to cancel our contract with Nature at Work and look after the plant displays in our Corsham offices ourselves. But after 18 months, the plants were looking tired and ill. We asked NAW back and they replaced the diseased plants and contaminated soil with fresh, healthy plants and we have renegotiated a maintenance-only contract with them - we now own the displays... |
Greening the great indoors for health and well-being!In March a report entitled 'Greening the great indoors for human health and wellbeing' was published in Australia.The report by Margaret Burchett of the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, looked in to the effect of office and indoor plants on air quality, mould spores and the wellbeing of the building’s occupants. The report came to four main conclusions, none of which surprised us at Nature at Work! Plants, firstly, were found to remove organic materials from the air, helping to maintain purity in an office environment. In offices with air conditioning plants didn’t filter CO2 to any significant extent,... |
Real Christmas Trees bring a Christmassy aroma to offices in the South of England!Many suppliers have gone for the easy option of artificial christmas trees but Nature at Work supports a natural look!We reckon that you can’t beat the unique Christmassy AROMA of a Nature at Work REAL Christmas Tree in the office! And from an environmental point of view, real trees win over artificial because they are completely recyclable (unlike artificial trees which are made from non-renewable plastics and petroleum-based products and get thrown away and remain in landfill for centuries) and real trees are re-planted and new ones grow again quickly, so they are a renewable resource too. It is harder... |