Ricerc@Sapienza

BACKGROUND: The quality of the places where workers take their breaks may affect the completeness of recovery in the
time available. Little is known about how characteristics of a company canteen buffer the relationship between job demands
and fatigue.
OBJECTIVE: We addressed the possibility that the company canteen buffers the relationship between job demands and
fatigue to the extent that workers perceive it to hold restorative quality. Further, we considered how the restorative quality

Research on restorative environments has showed the healthy outcomes of nature experience, though often by comparing attractive natural to unattractive built environments. Some studies indeed showed the restorative value of artistic/historical settings. In a quasi-experimental study involving 125 participants in Rome, Italy, a natural and a built/historical environment, both scoring high in restorative properties, were evaluated in a natural, built/historical, or neutral setting.