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The implementation of biophilic design aspects in wokplaces: Reducing the stress in today's office

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2023
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In recent years, wellness in the workplace has supported and become an essential priority for employees worldwide. stress nowadays has become a common issue in our modern society mainly due to stressors, heavy competition, modern and rapid technological changes, and its effects on employees' productivity and their annual absence rate. Hence, workplace design can play an essential part in supporting employee well-being and play a significant role in an overall physical and psychological well-being program. The evidence for the positive effects of indoor plants on workers' emotional states, personal health, work engagement, and overall opinions of their working environment is expanding, which in turn has an impact on worker productivity. The study aims to examine the relationship between indoor potted plants and employees' stress issues in the workplace and how the workplace environment design affects the employees. Furthermore, how nature can heal by integrating the biophilic design in the interior space so that the individual can release the negative symptoms of health caused by the work and workplace. In order to investigate the potential effects of indoor plants on employees' physical and psychological well-being, reducing stress, and views of their workplace connected with nature as a whole, this study uses an experimental methodology, using four questionnaires to investigate the level of employee's stress and mental-wellbeing level in addition to their connection to nature before exposing employees to plants and after.

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Lına Salem

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Lına Salem (Master Thesis). The implementation of biophilic design aspects in wokplaces: Reducing the stress in today's office, 2023, Bahçeşehir University.

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