Get Outdoors after Work!

Klotz and colleagues studied how employees experiencing outdoor nature after spending a day at work indoors affected their lives.  The scientists determined that “Our results, based on three studies employing different methodologies (i.e., an experience sampling study, an experiment, and a recall study), indicate that evening nature contact positively relates to beginning of [next] workday positive affect [mood] and subsequent work effort. However, this effect emerged only for employees with high levels of nature connectedness—an individual difference reflecting individuals’ innate…

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