<story><title>Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/aug/31/plants-offices-workers-productive-minimalist-employees</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IvyMike</author><text>Funny enough, when the plants show up, in my experience it&amp;#x27;s a bad sign.  I have no proof this conversation happened at the last two places I worked... but I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure it did happen.&lt;p&gt;Upper-level manager #1: &amp;quot;The results of the employee morale survey are back.  Morale is at an all time low.  The employees feel that upper-level management is clueless, they are increasingly unable to do their jobs efficiently because of process and bureaucracy, and the raises we gave this year were below industry average.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Upper-level manager #2: &amp;quot;I just googled &amp;#x27;how to raise morale&amp;#x27; and it said &amp;#x27;plants&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Upper-level manager #1: &amp;quot;Let&amp;#x27;s do that!&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/aug/31/plants-offices-workers-productive-minimalist-employees</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dominotw</author><text>I have this[1] closed ecosystem on my desk that I share with a coworker. Best decision ever.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005IZOB5M/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B005IZOB5M&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>