A Dream Workplace

Six months ago, I posted about "My Dream Office" which should be in my own house. But for most who are employed in a regular job, working in a common workplace is inevitable. There should be a dream common workplace then, the kind that will help employees live a healthy life. Is that possible?

In Japan, workers in some offices are required to attend the warm up session in the morning before the official working hour starts. But since a dream workplace would like to maximize the health of the employees while in the workplace, other solutions can be worked out.

1. Exposure to sunshine is a must for a person’s health and the best time of exposure that will surely help the body to produce Vitamin D is from 9:30 to 10 in the morning. Eating should not be allowed in the office in the morning, instead, a special canteen without a roof or located at an open field that operates only in the morning should be provided, where snacks may be taken or short meetings may even be conducted . Employees may be scheduled alternately and those scheduled to be at the open field canteen starting at 9:30 A.M. may be motivated with a free snack ticket. When it’s raining, that’s the only time snacks in carts may go to the offices.

2. Thirty minutes before the closing time of the office, all elevators should be switched off and all employees should be required to use the stairs.

3. The main canteen of the office should serve healthy foods only, without any meat. These food should be sold at cheaper prices.

4. Turn on the centralized air condition only during hot seasons. Use electric fans during cool seasons since too cold temperatures can affect a person's health.

5. Employees with no abnormal findings during the Annual P.E. should be rewarded, and if they have ideal weights, their rewards should be doubled.

6. Of course provide gyms with saunas and work-out programs for the employees.

There are more ways than just the above 6. Where to get the funds for such program? Decrease the amount for health insurance to add to the savings in electricity when the centralized air condition and elevators are turned off, and the open field that will not require lights. This is not an original idea, only the ways differ, but that only means that achieving a dream workplace similar to this is not an impossible dream.

A dream garden of a cat and a CEO

Every morning at 9:30, the sun's rays are right in front of our door and I don't let that opportunity to be exposed to sunlight even just for 20 minutes pass. To motivate myself to regularly do that, I look at the garden, check if its overall view looks good. Both the left and right gardens would fit the frame of a camera, therefore their full views are easy to appreciate or assess.


How would I assess a garden? A blooming flower will surely make the overall view of a garden look good so it would be easy to spot and assess in more detail. The morgana flower will make a garden beautiful and at first glance one would like to look at it more closely and in so doing, discover flowerettes also blooming on the fully bloomed large flower. On the other hand, wilted leaves will surely mar the overall view of the garden so they should be regularly removed.


Why is the title of this post "A dream garden of a cat and a CEO"? Because our cat FPJ always looks at the garden like I do. Like me, perhaps he appreciates that he could see the overall view of the garden at one glance. I like big gardens, but if there is no spot in a beautiful garden that fits the frame of a camera, it will be hard to remember how beautiful it is.


It goes without saying that even a small garden can be a dream garden not only to a cat but also to people like me, and even perhaps to a CEO of a company. What if the overall view of a company is like a garden that I just described? The CEO will surely be very glad that at one glance he or she could see how healthy a company is. The small garden in this last photo looks good, but the branch of a beautiful plant with dark pink leaves is almost on the ground. That would be easy to correct but if left unattended, the beautiful leaves will finally fall to the ground and wilt.