{"id":12358,"date":"2015-04-08T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12358"},"modified":"2015-04-08T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T12:04:49","slug":"white-may-well-be-the-worst-colour-to-paint-office-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/white-may-well-be-the-worst-colour-to-paint-office-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"White May Well Be The Worst Colour To Paint Office Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/040815_1200_WhiteMayWel1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Vozza summarized research that looks at how the colours of the walls of an office affect performance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red increases the heart rate and raises blood pressure. It is a good wall colour for employees who have to focus on details.<\/li>\n<li>Blue settles the nerves and is good for those working on creative tasks, or looking to brainstorm.<\/li>\n<li>Green is similar to blue in that it&#8217;s good for innovation.<\/li>\n<li>Yellow creates optimism but too much seems to create anxiety. People are more likely to yell at each other in a yellow room.<\/li>\n<li>In contrast walls painted white \u2013 the preferred colour of offices around the world \u2013 seem to lead to an increase in errors.<\/li>\n<li>Personality matters. &#8220;High-Screener&#8221; individuals aren&#8217;t as affected by the colour of walls as &#8220;Low-Screener&#8221; ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the studies, the methodologies, why grey isn&#8217;t that great a colour either, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3044601\/work-smart\/why-you-should-never-paint-office-walls-whitehttp:\/www.fastcompany.com\/3044601\/work-smart\/why-you-should-never-paint-office-walls-white\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3044601\/work-smart\/why-you-should-never-paint-office-walls-whitehttp:\/www.fastcompany.com\/3044601\/work-smart\/why-you-should-never-paint-office-walls-white\">Fast Company<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Vozza summarized research that looks at how the colours of the walls of an office affect performance: Red increases the heart rate and raises blood pressure. It is a good wall colour for employees who have to focus on details. Blue settles the nerves and is good for those working on creative tasks, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/040815_1200_WhiteMayWel1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12363,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12358\/revisions\/12363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}