feeling stressed and depleted. So what can we do...

The natural world is full of curves, colour and complexity.

And bringing all this into the workplace can have a big impact

on our behaviour and our mood.

There are plenty of psychological studies that reveal changes in the

body and brain when people view certain colours.

These changes can influence our productivity, our creativity,

stress levels and much more.

A recent report by Human Spaces

showed that two thirds of people say they feel happier

when they walk into bright office environments

with yellow, blue and green colours.

Think about what energy you want to inject into your workspace

and use colour to change the atmosphere.

Biophilia, it's a fancy word with a simple meaning.

It's all about the connection we feel with the natural world

and helps explain why being around plants and trees and natural light

can help us feel a bit better in our daily lives.

Plants can fill and frame a space, making them feel wide and generous.

Studies show that bringing in a plant to work can boost your productivity

by 15%.

Maggie's centres were set up to give people who were going through cancer,

whether or not it was a person with cancer themselves

or their family and friends, a place to come to get help

with the challenges that cancer brings to their lives,

psychological, emotional and practical help.

From the beginning at Maggie's, we always knew the importance of views,

connections to nature, to be able to allow the distraction that being able

to see life and energy outside a building was really very important.

And we also knew that from the experience that people have

within hospital, where often they're under strip lights,

there's no distraction.

Biophilia isn't a term that I think people who come into the centre

would talk about and perhaps know, but what we do know is

when they come in the door, they're immediately--

There's a feeling that they talk about

that this is a place that they feel that they want to be in,

that they feel safe.

And that feeling is in response to the fact that they can see

different views into different windows of nature,

there's trees moving, there's grapes growing,

there's a pot outside where people can go

and pick mint to make their own tea.

So it offers an element of control within their environment,

a sense of peacefulness, and every time they come in, they talk about

it being slightly different, so there's a sort of distraction

and an energy that comes from something that's not static.

Researchers looked at two large commercial offices,

in the UK and the Netherlands.

They found that plants significantly increased workplace satisfaction

and self-reported levels of focus.

So why not nip down to the garden centre and add some

greenery to your desk?

Encouraging innovation isn't easy, and when it comes to buildings

it means doing things very differently.

Here at the Francis Crick Institute in London, they've mixed up teams

from different disciplines, right throughout the building.

The idea is that by bringing together people

with different specialities, amazing things can happen.

And this is not the only building that's recognised the value

of mixing up employees and organisations

with different disciplines.

Building 20 in MIT was known as the magical incubator.

Built near Boston in 1942,

it housed a whole load of different laboratories,

research groups and academic fields.

And out of that collision came some of the most ground-breaking

developments in science and technology.

Like the atomic clock, video games and Noam Chomsky's Universal Grammar.

So if you're struggling to get through the working day,

it might be worth redesigning your office with wellbeing in mind.

Because a happy and harmonious workspace

isn't something that just happens by accident.