Feng shui at work? Go with the flow
February 4, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
Could a feng shui compass in the workplace improve your productivity?
It may have helped Madonna, Chaka Khan, Kelly Brook and – bizarrely – Geoff Boycott, but can feng shui really improve your working life?
While most of us would probably think “Er, no”, some businesses, including British Airways, the Body Shop and Heron International, apparently believe the ancient Chinese art can help boost staff morale and productivity, sometimes without workers even realising that they’ve been, for want of a better phrase, feng shui-ed.
Today, more businesses are expected to convene at The Monastery in Manchester to learn how feng shui can promote happiness and health in the work place as part of the first ever World Feng Shui Day organised by the Barefoot Foundation, an organisation that claims to educate on natural and healthy living.
Dawn Gibbins, co-founder of the foundation, has been using feng shui in her home for 12 years. “Feng shui is all about how we interact with our environment, about creating a conducive energy flow and surrounding yourself with beauty to make you feel good. In business, that can be translated into clutter cleaning – a corporate detox – which clears work space and generates a feel-good factor,” she says.
Gibbins feng shui-ed her last business by scaling down the filing cabinets from 200 to 70, bringing in plants to oxygenate the atmosphere, replacing tube lighting with uplighters, and changing the colour scheme from white and red to green and blue…
Read the original article at Guardian