Category Archive For "Workplace Design"
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 …
Office Furniture: A Key to Workplace Productivity
Considering how often employees engage with it, office furniture is a vitally important part of a company’s assets. Most UK office workers (81%) spend four to nine hours each workday sitting at their desks. The same poll found that almost half of the employees surveyed (45%) said their employers didn’t offer the necessary tools and …
Changing our perceptions of colour and office design
Strange as it may seem, there are some colours that the human eye can’t see and it’s not just because they exist outside the usual spectrum. Compared to many other animals, the typical human eye is only capable of perceiving light across a narrow band of wavelengths of somewhere between 390 and 750 nanometers. That …
The studied carelessness of agile workplaces
In recent years we have grown very fond of borrowing foreign words to describe some of the more difficult to express ideas about wellbeing and work. We’ve adopted Eudaimonia from the Ancient Greek of Aristotle to describe the nuances of wellbeing, happiness and purpose. We went nuts briefly for the Scandinavian idea of hygge to …
Ergonomics – so easy a child can do it
Language may be constantly evolving but if you want to see how a word can lose its meaning quickly, there’s no better example than watching the way some companies can misappropriate it in a misguided attempt to help them sell their products. For example, the big problem with the way some people talk about the …
The problem of office distraction and the quest for sanctuary (some of the time)
Ask most office workers what they find most annoying and unproductive about their workplace and they’re most likely by some distance to suggest that it is sound, closely followed by the related issue of visual privacy.. The issue has intensified over the past few years with the proliferation of mobile devices and as the amount …