After sitting in many of these, I can personally attest to how important they are for the morale of the facility as a whole. Even when indivi-duals come to the meeting to complain and act divisively, to a person the feedback they provide at the meeting's end is positive and that they appreciated the opportunity to attend. Those meetings fulfill a basic human need. It refreshes, reinvigorates and inspires. The liberating effect of beauty translates to worker employees, too.
Unnecessary ugliness affects people's morale and in turn productivity.
In business, we often deal with employees only on the intellectual level yet expect the whole person to become enlisted in our cause. Or we give them the bare necessities for doing their jobs. Human beings need more than that. They need to have their senses engaged, too. People need to feel some measure of performance beauty in their work.