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The Role Plants Play In Productive Office Life

The Horizons Tracker

Plants have a strong and enduring reputation as a positive influence on our mood and behavior, and so a recent Japanese study from the University of Hyogo should perhaps come as no surprise. As such, they conducted their work in a real office environment rather than the lab.

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When Clinicians Know They’re Being Watched, Patients Fare Better

Harvard Business Review

In the 1920s, a series of experiments were conducted at Hawthorne Works, a Western Electric telephone factory just outside Chicago, to study the effects of lighting on worker productivity. The researchers concluded that it was the act of being studied , not the lighting, that made workers increase their productivity.