Category Archive For "Workplace Design"
How an Office Lounge Can Create Happier Employees
An office lounge is a perfect place to enjoy a break — or at least it should be. An office lounge can provide employees with a laid-back, comfortable place away from their desks to eat, socialize, and re-focus. We’ll explore some ideas for designing a lounge for a dynamic office space. What is an office …
How to Choose the Right Conference Chairs for your Office
Conference chairs are one of the most important aspects of any productive meeting. Thanks to inventors Charles Darwin (wheels), Thomas Jefferson (swivel), and Thomas R. Warren (combining the two), we have an elaborately designed, exquisitely comfortable chair created for work and meetings.1 But with so many modern options, how does one choose the right conference …
How a Training Table Can Benefit Employee Learning
A training table provides a place for employees to take notes, complete activities, conduct research, or take tests during training. Training tables work well as dual-purpose meeting tables. However, they are most suitable for layouts in learning environments. You may arrange these slender, rectangular, tables in rows for a training room setup, similar to a …
What Does Your Conference Table Say About Your Business?
Tables have been around since the 3rd millennium BCE, according to the historical records of ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and Chinese.1 And before that, we think it’s safe to say that many rocks were used as tables, and maybe a tree trunk or two. Along the way, tables became more valuable in certain settings for signaling …
How Meeting Room Furniture Helps Productive Collaboration
Meeting rooms are the heartbeat of the modern office. They are places where every company member can conveniently collaborate, share ideas, and reinforce the company culture. Consequently, meeting room furniture is an often-overlooked, yet critical element of fostering a productive meeting. We will dive into the details of these multi-functional spaces and how the right …
Swivel Chairs: Must-Have Furniture for Any Office
The swivel chair changed the way everyone worked from a desk. They are everywhere, but where did they come from? Thomas Jeffersoninvented the swivel chair in the late 1770s. He had an overwhelming amount of paperwork on his plate; breaking off a British colony and turning it into a nation is complicated. He decided to …
Height-Adjustable Desks: The Future of Office Workstations
Are height-adjustable desks a potential solution for an improved workplace? Our work conditions play an essential role in our comfort, ergonomics, and job satisfaction. This applies in both the office as well as in the home office. The working environment can and should adapt to promote good posture and healthy habits. But how? This has …
Forget the future of work and instead focus on its futures
Over recent months I’ve had a lot of conversations with organisations about their workplace plans and strategies as they plan for their own future of work. And I’ve listened in on even more conversations. One notion that is constantly expressed by the people developing such strategies is that they are very uncertain about both the …
Types of Office Chairs to Suit Every Need
The humble chair has a roughly 5,000-year history. Chairs reflect the time, place, and culture they represent. “The way we choose to sit, and what we choose to sit on, says a lot about us: our values, our tastes, the things we hold dear,” Rybczynski writes in his book, Now I Sit Me Down. In …
What Types of Desks are Just Right for Your Work?
If you’ve worked from home, you’ve likely commandeered the dining table, kitchen counter, or another functional family space. At some point, you probably decided that you needed a comfortable space separate from common living areas with storage, seating, and, of course, a desk. The average Brit is now sitting down for more than 43 hours …
