Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Refuges at Work
The evidence is in the academic/peer-reviewed press and the popular press and in our own life experiences: people need to have access to a retreat at the office, a place where they can be out of contact with others – during times by themselves, people do the work that’s essential for their mental and physical wellbeing. It’s a place where they make sense of recent events in their lives and prepare to move forward. Retreating briefly from the world around us is vital for our mental and physical health. We all need a place to get away from the crush of our daily life occasionally, to be somewhere we can’t really see or hear other people. If we can pick out what others are up to, we can’t focus on what’s going on in our own minds; the fact that our brains developed to support what in our pre-history was …
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