Let’s begin this article by outlining what office design means for us at Calibre Office Furniture. From our perspective at Calibre, the best office designs are those that take a business’s and employee’s needs into account. For example, designing an office that is beyond the company budget wouldn’t be a wise idea neither would designing an office that withholds a workforce’s productivity. So striking a balance between the two in our opinion is extremely vital.
With this in mind therefore, we wanted to explore this notion further and recently came across a fantastic article titled 5 office design strategies that will make employees happier by Fast Company.
We have picked out our favourite sections of the article below and will discuss in greater detail below.
The customisation of different departments:
To us, the process of matching each office space in accordance to the type of department you’re dealing with as suggested by this article makes complete sense. All projects here, ranging from straight forward basic ones to the more complexed high-end luxury office furniture led projects always take individual departmental needs into consideration.
In the modern working world, as many office furniture industrialists would agree, this is the right way to design an office. In fact, we’ve had several highly satisfied customers from following this office design strategy. After all, would you place a talkative Sales person next to a Creative Writer who usually requires full concentration and focus when writing an inventive content piece?
Use lots of glass:
As stated in this article and in our opinion, in order to have clearer ideas and thoughts in the workplace, we have to go transparent. This means, using glass around most areas of the office ranging from doors, desks to even coffee tables. An executive glass desk would however normally be found in a senior staff member’s private office because using this material for every single employee office desk would be impractical, costly and unsafe.
By now, you must be thinking why is using glass so important. Well, the simple reason behind using a great deal of glass in your office is that it allows for plenty of natural light to come in, leaving the workforce feeling refreshed, energised and motivated. After all, who wants to be sitting in the dark like a mushroom?
Make your walls interactive:
We are enormously impressed by this concept due to its immense distinctiveness. The purpose of this concept is that all the walls and windows within the premises can be written on. The advantage of this is that every time a bright idea comes to mind, you can instantly put it on the wall and have it communicated to a larger sum of people within minutes.
From our point of view however, it’s better to just have interactive walls of this type in meeting rooms and not the rest of the office because this could make your office look messy. After all, it all boils down to personal preference and taste but we would rather only have interactive walls in meeting rooms in order to prevent any internal confidential information from leaking to visiting clients.
Closing thoughts on office design:
It’s clear that office design is not just about picking the most suitable office layout and office furniture such as ergonomic office chairs and desks, it certainly goes beyond this. It’s about looking at every single detail in an office. As suggested, this could include the type of material you use in majority of your office space to finding different ways of making your organisation more creative and interactive.
So, before signing off any final office design propositions, make sure every component of your office has been taken into consideration. If you want to attain more information on how space planning exactly works then, get in touch with our fully trained interior design experts here at Calibre.
Our space planning process at a glance:
