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July 2017

National Plants at Work Week recommends the 7 x 7 plan

(Your company name) and National Plants at Work Week (NPWW) taking place between 11th – 15th July 2015 is rec6mmending the 7 x 7 plan.

If you’re wondering what the 7 x 7 plan is it’s all about taking just seven minutes every day for seven days to engage with nature.

There are many ways you do this:

  1. Making sure you have a plant on or near your desk and taking time to admire it
  2. Take your coffee break outside or in a planted ‘break-out’ area
  3. If you are lucky enough to have green space outside of your workplace, enjoy your seven minutes looking out at the space
  4. Take a walk around the park
  5. Buy a plant for your home office desk
  6. Watch our online webinars during your lunch break on YouTube (more details on our efig's website)
  7. Plan how you can increase the 7 minutes a day once National Plants at Work Week is over

What’s the reason?

Here are seven good reasons why we should surround ourselves with plants at work or at school:

  1. They are good for our general well-being
  2. They reduce the time we take sick
  3. Plants clean the air around us and refresh it with oxygen for us to breathe
  4. They help to keep us stress free
  5. Surprisingly plants make us more productive by as much as 12% - 38% ...
  6. ... and more creative by 45%
  7. Plants help to fulfil our need for nature (the biophilia concept recognised by Richard Louv)

Backed up by research

The recommendations are well backed up by research from around the world indicating just how reliant we are on plants for so much that we take for granted.Read about the research here.

Which business doesn’t want to maximise productivity and reduce time taken off sick? Not to mention reducing any pollution in the air. It is a well-known fact that we spend more time indoors than outdoors (roughly 90% indoors) and that air pollution indoors can be 10 times more polluted than outdoor air (Environment Protection Agency - EPA).

More scary are statistics that suggest that polluted air can cause premature deaths according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and The Royal College of Physicians.

Get involved

If you want to learn more see (your website/attached leaflet)about how plants can have a positive influence on your life. You can also follow the activities of National Plants at Work Week on Facebook and Twitter using #plantsatworkweek.

We will be taking part by (nature of involvement) during NPWW week 10th – 14th July.

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For more information about National Plants at Work Week, please contact Coll Smith Marketing Coordinator at National Plants at Work Week (an efig Ltd initiative) via

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Editor’s notes

National Plants at Work Week is an annual event to raise awareness of the benefits of plants to the working environment. 2015 is the third annual event.

137.3 million working days were lost due to sickness or injury in the UK in 2016

Days lost to absence caused by stress average 24 per person or a staggering 11.6 million days according to the HSE

2. 7 million premature deaths annually linked to air pollution, WHO,25 March 2014.

Indoor air more polluted than air outside

Research synopsis about the benefits of plants downloadable from efig.co.uk and also attached with this release