Aloe vera plants are easy to grow if they receive lots of bright light on a sunny office window sill. The standard Aloe barbadensis miller is attractive in a modern office space. Consider the dwarf 'Minibelle' or the speckled 'Tiger Tooth' cultivar. Grow them in a sandy cactus mix to ensure the excellent drainage these plants require.  

Lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana) isn't true bamboo but it is an easy indoor plant as long as it's in indirect sunlight, which could mean on a far wall of your office away from the direct sun.

Have fun on your breaks shaping lucky bamboo stems into shapes like spirals, weaves, or even hearts. Lucky bamboo grows well in low light and can grow in water. Lucky bamboo is toxic to animals.

The snake plant (Dracaena trifasciata) is as tough as they come. Read the plant label carefully to avoid choosing a cultivar that grows several feet too tall for your workspace.

Instead, look for a dwarf selection like 'Futura Superba' or 'Whitney'. They require little special attention except for a drink from your water bottle on your way out the door, and they do best in a spot where they can get bright, indirect sun for eight hours a day.

Pothos (Epipremnum aureum) is a simple green plant with heart-shaped leaves but it grows fast. Grow pothos with long lengths of vines to trail along the walls of a cubicle or office.

Pothos is flexible about lighting and even tolerates low light or fluorescents, but make sure it has lots of room to spread. Cultivars 'Neon' and 'Silver Satin' are extremely tolerant of an office's dark or low-light conditions. 

Cacti thrive as indoor office plants. Two groups of cacti include desert cacti (with hairy spines) and forest cacti (more succulent in appearance minus the prickly parts). Some cacti produce blooms, such as the Christmas cactus (of the forest kind).

Cacti don't need pruning and rarely need repotting since they grow slowly. They will require a sunny spot to thrive, so this is your plant for direct sun if you have a spot right by a window.

Parlor palm (Chamaedorea elegans) is a graceful, frothy plant and a slight breeze moves its green fern-like foliage. Parlor palm adapts to low light and can't tolerate too much watering, which is ideal for those without corner offices. It's a slow-growing, long-living plant that even tolerates air conditioning. 

The ponytail palm (Beaucarnea recurvata) has cute, sassy, and strappy green leaves and tolerates neglect. It's a succulent rather than a true palm. If you work at a desk that doesn't have a lot of space, this indoor tree can stay small for a long time as a desktop specimen if grown in a shallow pot.

It needs a larger pot to grow into a floor plant—use cactus or succulent potting mix with a little extra peat moss blended in to enrich the soil.

Majesty palm (Ravenea rivularis) is a tropical tree native to Madagascar, where it can grow nearly 100 feet tall, and an increasingly popular houseplant. It is grown mostly as an indoor tree, where confining its roots keeps this plant to about 10 feet tall. Majesty palm has long, arching green fronds atop multiple stems, which make it a great piece of decor as well. This palm needs bright light indoors, dappled light outdoors, and high humidity to thrive.

When grown indoors, majesty palm will add about one foot of growth per year until it reaches four to six feet, then it slows down dramatically. It is faster-growing as an outdoor plant where its roots are free to roam—it is occasionally used as a landscape tree in California, South Florida, and other tropical regions.