Empowering people to deliver excellent work is one of my greatest passions as Lucidchart’s vice president of people operations. In this pursuit, we, like many companies, spend a lot of time strategically designing the workplace to maximize productivity, including stocking our kitchen with healthy snacks and lunches, providing ergonomic chairs with mountain views as a cozy alternative to our employees’ desks, and offering quiet rooms for people who need to focus without interruption. While these perks are nice and certainly make a difference, they actually pale in comparison to what we’ve learned is one of the biggest secrets to energizing and boosting employee productivity: Time spent outside the office.