Owning a business can be tough and creating the right environment for your workforce can be an essential part of being successful. It is well known that keeping healthy happy employees is one way to ensure success. What is not so well known is that office plants can help you to create the right environment in the office.

Over the years, there have been many academic studies that provide evidence to support the fact that the use of office plants has substantial benefits for your business and your employees. Indoor office plants not only look good but improve air quality, worker productivity and reduce stress thus maximising your business profits.

Hiring office plants provides you with even more additional benefits. Firstly a professional office plant specialist will be able to advise you on the types of plants that would be most suitable to the environment at your office. For example, certain plants such as the Rubber plant and Dwarf Date Palm are two popular office plants that can survive well in dimly lit conditions. Likewise, the Lady Palm and Dracaena Janet Craig have been noted for their enhanced ability to purify indoor air.

Another advantage of installing rented office plants into your business premises is that you will have assurance that your plants will always be well cared for and maintained. Most professional interior landscaping specialists will have a dedicated team who will regularly attend to indoor office plants and ensure that they are kept healthy. This is especially important as studies have suggested that office plants in poor health have a negative effect on your workforce.

With regards to the design and aesthetics of your offices hiring office plants can be extremely beneficial. Academic studies have shown that people react positively to plants and view the use of smart office plant displays as a sign of the company's success. Interior landscapers will also be able to help you with the design and layout of your office ensuring that you have beautiful planted office displays in all the right places and that all your office plants fit in with the décor and ambience of the building. Professionally arranged large office plant displays can also be used to hide the less attractive areas of an office.

Most modern offices have been designed to be efficient energy saving spaces. The problem with this is that with modern buildings being so well sealed in order to keep the elements out, they also keep some of the indoor pollutants in. Many businesses have tried to tackle the problem of polluted indoor air by installing expensive air ventilation systems that often require structural changes being made to the building. Office plants however are much more flexible and can be introduced without any real changes to your office, what's more, they can also be moved around easily should you need them to be.

Plants are especially effective in communal reception or lobby areas where clients are likely to make their first impressions. Please note that putting reception plants in the lobby is not enough to improve staff productivity and you should initiate interior landscaping in all areas of your business premises. Office plants provided and maintained by specialist companies will be carefully supplied in stylish containers that reflect the décor of your office. As trends and décor change the office plants can simply be re-potted in more suitable containers.

Finally, another key advantage gained from hiring office plants is that key personnel will be able to complete more pressing duties free in the knowledge that the office plants are well cared for and helping them keep their staff motivated and happy. With most of us spending more than a third of our waking hours at work investing in interior landscaping services should be well worth the money due to heaps of potential financial benefits that can be gained from hiring office plants.