At the dawn of a new scorching summer, a corneal choice is available to the modern hybrid worker: enduring a suffocating route by car or by public transport to offer the luxury of business air conditioning saving; Or risk teleworking in a less fresh accommodation. That Nenni, replies Pierre, your annoying colleague: “Oh, that I would be in my garden, I might make a grill at the lunch break. In addition with the trees, it’s perfect, I don’t have too hot. “
For some thinkers of the company of the future, work is emerging in green, and for everyone: “Greendesking” (with or without space) consists in working outdoors, but in technical conditions that are not degraded.
The grass being always greener in the neighbor, you have to turn to the Nordic and Anglo -Saxon countries to find the precursors of this fairly young trend, but above all to Quebec – which, very surprisingly, does not offer From translation to expression in his great terminological dictionary. In Montreal, there is a network of forty free outdoor work spaces, with parasols, internet and electricity.
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There are plethora of eccentric solutions: we can, for example, rent a shared workspace, but located in the countryside, “planted” anywhere (the Germans of Outside Society offer a module equipped with 34 meters squares), or choose a prefabricated individual cabin printed in 3D (invention of the American Denizen), which can be put in your garden, or failing this in the forest.
Beyond opening our eyes to the world around us, and seeing his creativity fed by the inspiration of the lyric song of birds (and other blablatages), “Greendesking” is a quality tool From life to work (QVT). It would help reduce absenteeism and stress, demonstrate several studies: the 2015 Human Spaces report argues that employees who do not benefit from a window overlooking the outside and a natural environment are the most stressed. This is what psychoanalysts call “biophilia”, the fundamental need for humans to be connected to the living. With “Greendsking”, you will understand, it is also a question of being connected to Wi-Fi.
The company can finance such spaces for its employees, near its premises for example. Or within them, provided that the leap forward is massive, and that this exceeds the redeveloped inner courtyard like winter garden (SNCF Connect offers this solution), with its five tables, of which only two not far from taking running. What about the famous vegetable garden on the rooftop (roof terrace) of a Parisian company, which offers seventeen cherry tomatoes every year to the 1,000 employees of the building?
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