I think in a more normal office than used in the pictures (i.e. less light lower ceilings), it would feel like you were in a jungle. Maybe if you add humidity and increase the temperature, it will appeal to our jungle dwelling roots...
Although this is kind of impractical, I wonder if it would work well against the main evil of the modern open office - excess noise. The random angles of the leaves might reduce it a bit...
Not impractical at all. Back in the day when I still worked in a cubicle dungeon I brought a bunch of pot plants in to work to live on my desk. Whether they were able to contribute much to cleaning the air (and the air system in that building was utterly atrocious!) I couldn't honestly say. But they certainly helped me by introducing a more garden-like and less dungeon-like feel to my work area. It didn't take long before the company that serviced the office plants also took to watering and cleaning my pot plants, thus relieving me of much of the maintenance (not that it was a burden - I love working with plants.)
I was going to make a wiseacre remark about how my work frowned on bringing pot plants to work, but I know what you mean :). I work out of my home office now and love being surrounded by plants.
One place I worked at a few years ago, a guy did this. The problem was that it ended up introducing fruit flies to the environment, which was pretty miserable to work around.
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This is pretty cool.
I think in a more normal office than used in the pictures (i.e. less light lower ceilings), it would feel like you were in a jungle. Maybe if you add humidity and increase the temperature, it will appeal to our jungle dwelling roots...
Although this is kind of impractical, I wonder if it would work well against the main evil of the modern open office - excess noise. The random angles of the leaves might reduce it a bit...
Not impractical at all. Back in the day when I still worked in a cubicle dungeon I brought a bunch of pot plants in to work to live on my desk. Whether they were able to contribute much to cleaning the air (and the air system in that building was utterly atrocious!) I couldn't honestly say. But they certainly helped me by introducing a more garden-like and less dungeon-like feel to my work area. It didn't take long before the company that serviced the office plants also took to watering and cleaning my pot plants, thus relieving me of much of the maintenance (not that it was a burden - I love working with plants.)
I was going to make a wiseacre remark about how my work frowned on bringing pot plants to work, but I know what you mean :). I work out of my home office now and love being surrounded by plants.
One place I worked at a few years ago, a guy did this. The problem was that it ended up introducing fruit flies to the environment, which was pretty miserable to work around.