LANDSCAPE & GROUNDS MAINTENANCE
their gardens and sending the weak and infirm to the countryside and the sea to recuperate.
The great outdoors is there to be enjoyed, whether it’s rolling hills, an English country garden - or the well- manicured grounds of an office block.
Many of us spend the majority of our working week at the office so, if there’s space outside to be enjoyed, then we should be cultivating all external areas and not disregarding them.
There are huge benefits to creating spaces that users can connect to, physically and emotionally, and much has been made of how access to green space is a key contributor to wellbeing, improving health and reducing stress.
Any such benefits, that are conducive to the overall health and wellbeing of the regular inhabitants of the building, have also been recognized as having a commercial bearing, effecting recruitment and retention as well as impacting on staff productivity. (It’s been established that the issue of wellbeing ranks highly for many employees, seeking out the best and most desirable employer).
If you have the space to create an area that workers can visit on break time – an outdoor place to retreat to - that will almost certainly be regarded as a huge bonus for staff. Tidy grounds, flowers, trees and well- manicured lawns can stimulate the mind, raise the spirits and enhance worker performance.
With careful planning and an innovative approach, such space can play its part in keeping the workforce content, by providing another area that invigorates and re-energises, as well as making the business look more attractive.
The very best landscape design can become a source of inspiration as well as calm. At the very least, it can enhance a building’s exterior and encourage positive feelings about the company/companies that the building houses.
The employee will most likely feel more satisfied and cared for if his or her surrounds are well looked after.
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Carefully tended surrounds indicate greater levels of concern for the building’s inhabitants, as well as commercial success and stability, and members of staff are not immune to that and will react accordingly – albeit subconsciously. The inverse of this is that a neglected exterior can demoralise the workforce and can create a subconscious feeling of low energy and poor enthusiasm – it won’t inspire and conveys potential failure from the get go.
“THERE ARE GREAT SOCIAL,
ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVANTAGES TO IMPROVING THE GROUNDS OF
A COMMERCIAL PROPERTY.”
There is also the issue of commercial sales and rental if you own the building and its surrounds. Thoughtful and creative early planning and good long-term maintenance of the grounds will increase future ‘saleability’ and revitalise the whole space. For those looking to rent out property, attractive grounds have curb appeal, immediately generating feelings of positivity and providing a nice welcome.
And so, if you do have premises that come with quality outside space, it’s simply a waste not to use it. If companies who are starved of such outside space are jumping through hoops to bring the outside in, with plants, living walls and roof gardens, it’s a no-brainer to tend to the space you have outside the building - if you’re lucky enough to have it!
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