Outdoor Office Day

The urban green as workplace.

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 and do you like to organize #weetings (walking meetings)? When the sun comes out, 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 the 13th of June 2024 the necessity to work more healthily by taking your office outdoors. #OutdoorOfficeDay 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 the 6ht international edition of the #OutdoorOfficeDay.

We first organised the Outdoor Office Day 'made by Nature Desks’ - in the summer of 2019 when the first participants all over The Netherlands moved their work outdoors. In Utrecht the local organisation for entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises ‘OndernemersFonds’ hired Nature Desks to co-organise a placemaking event during the national ’Duurzame Week’ (Sustainability Week). The next years Outdoor Office Day grew and become an international platform and network of like minded people.

 
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OUR TIPS

  • place tables and chairs and work outside

  • have your lunch walking outside or have a walking meeting (=weeting)

  • do some of your phone calls during a walk

  • discover the urban nature in the vicinity of your (home) office

  • create your own nature desk