Findings, methods and sources
Adjacent evidenceObservational / experimentalReported benefit
Finding. Experiments comparing office conditions found benefits from enrichment and from participants' control over decoration.
Limitation. Art and plants were combined. Office tasks and worker choice differ from exposure to hospital sculpture.
Methods and verification
Verification level: Abstract checked
Structured summary
- Population
- Office workers in experimental settings
- Sample
- Two experiments: 112 and 47 participants
- Intervention
- Offices decorated by the experimenter with plants and art, or self-decorated
- Comparator
- Lean office
- Outcome measures
- Organisational identification, well-being and productivity measures
- Timing
- Within each experimental session
- Result
- Better outcomes in decorated than lean offices; further improvements when workers decorated their own space
- Uncertainty
- Art and plants combined; office tasks, not healthcare
- Design
- Two experiments, one in a laboratory office and one in a commercial city office
- Sample / scope
- 112 and 47 participants
- Setting
- Workplace, not healthcare
- Art form
- Pictures
Citation and abstract checked against PubMed, 29 September 2026
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Publications and overlap
No confirmed shared-publication match is recorded for this entry in Edition 4.11. Source-by-source and participant-level reconciliation is incomplete; this does not establish an independent study.