Outdoor Office Day
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Do you also prefer to take your work outdoors? Are you meeting your colleagues in a city park close to home? Do you have phone conversations whilst walking outside? Do you find yourself grabbing a table and chairs from your home or office, placing them on a balcony, on the pavement or garden in order to read or write? Work, well-being and urban nature are indivisibly linked.
Celebrate on 16th of June 2022 the necessity to work more healthily by taking your office outdoors: #outdoorofficeday
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Urban or rural issues
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Summary
Each year we invite individuals and institutuin to take their work outdoors. In 2019 we organised an physical event in the city of Utrecht. In 2020 and 2021 - with no physical events possible due to the pandemic - we have shifted to an online platform. While the mane focus is reconnection with nature while working, the Outdoor Office Day is also about wellbeing, placemaking, making connenctions and urban green.
Outdoor Office Day is an open invitation. For everyone. It doesn't matter whether you work fulltime from home or are gradually returning to the office. Being self-employed or a manager at a corporate. Join us and participate in 4th edition of the international #OutdoorOfficeDay and prove that you care about your own well-being and that of your colleagues. It is our life centered perspective when we talk about the future of work.
Key objectives for sustainability
We are focusing on sustainable behaviour and a sustainable environment. In 2020, 56.2 percent of the world population was urban. The number of people living in cities is growing. What can we do now in order to stimulate a sustainable, healthy behaviour in the future. Heathy habits imply a reconnection with nature. The last years - expecially during the pandemic - more and more studis are highlighting the posivive effects of nature - vitamine N - on our physical and mental wellbeing. https://nola.se/en/journal/the-outdoors-has-found-a-new-status/Taking work outdoors is our response.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
Nature is the most aesthetic thing on earth. This is why we invest in biophicic design in out homes and offices. So why to immers into nature while working? technically, the Outdoor Office Day can be held in the near-by city park, on the green roof of your office, on a high street green parklet. In Lahti, the european green capital 2021, there were desks handing on trees. Or we can go guur sustainable design: see the exmple of Nola from Sweden.
The Outdoor Office Day inspires and showcased the best practices and exmples.
Key objectives for inclusion
Outdoor Office Day is for every one. As an ebent is a moment to meet colleagues in a low key natural environment. As a platform, we are open for everyoen wanting to participate: self employed of big company, a neighbourhoor or a municipality. Everyone is welcome.
Results in relation to category
The impact can be measures by the growing number of participants each year, the growing number of online interactios via the socials, websites or emails. There are so many people asking for advice or best examples. We want to continue to provide them.
How Citizens benefit
Everyone can participate: self employed or employees, big or small companies, neighbourhoods or municipalities. It can be done bottom-up wiht almost no financial resources. It can be invested and become a bigger event. Outdoor Office Day is for everyone.
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Innovative character
Also because of the pandemic people are rethinking their priorities when it comes to work. The Outdoor Office Day is hitting a sensitive note, and offers for some of us a solution.
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