Does a pretty office make a productive workforce?

Offices with scenic views, as well as high-quality indoor environments, could help employees become more productive, research suggests

The view from office windows is rarely the stuff of picture postcards. Yet the scenic quality of our daily environments has a direct correlation on our personal wellbeing, researchers say.

The team from Warwick Business School used results from an online game called Scenic-Or-Not, which features 217,000 images from around Britain and asks people to rate them according to their "scenicness". The highest ranked pictures are broadly predictable: snow-capped mountains, tree-banked rivers, wild seascapes.