How Corporate Office Furniture Nurtures
Flexible Environments Employees Love
Employees love the flexibility and corporate office furniture has an impact on employee satisfaction in the workplace. Businesses all have a common goal to thrive and that means they have to pay attention to what makes employees happy, productive, and efficient. Since employees make the business, it’s important to attract and retain top talent. The right kind of corporate office furniture will nurture the kind of environment where employees are comfortable and productive. Good employees want to do a good job and the right office furniture will innately nurture their efforts.
In today’s world, working conditions have adapted to flexibility. The right corporate office furniture helps create an environment that better caters to flexible working conditions and employees love it! Cubicles and office spaces with four walls are not ideal for everyone or every project. Other times, however, privacy and separation from others are also necessary. To perform their best work, many employees need variation in their day, frequent breaks, and a comfortable spot to perform whatever task is at hand. This is why flexibility has to be considered when selecting the best modern office furniture.
Employees love a flexible environment for different reasons. It breaks up the monotony of their workday or makes them more at ease while performing a specific task. Flexible environment means having a space and the right corporate office furniture that works for their project: workspaces to spread out, areas to collaborate, and comfortable breaktime spots.
Workspace Corporate Office Furniture
Offices Spaces & Desks
Needing a desk is normal for offices and for executives it is key. Employees love the ability to stay organized with the right desk. Zira Contemporary Laminate Desking is a contemporary solution with extensive options to personalize the workspace. . It’s a functional solution to work environment efficiency and organization. Princeton Freestanding Modular Laminate Desking is for a new generation that believes the office doesn’t have to be stuffy. Need an extra few inches to stretch your legs or get around an unexpected wall. Just move the desk to where you need it, no need to call the installers. This collection provides variety making it the perfect spot to get work done.
Workstations & Adjustable Furniture
Employees like flexibility and adjustable corporate office furniture because of how it allows them to work. The ESI Lift-SLV Height Adjustable Workstation is a sit to stand office desk that lets employees transform seamlessly from a sitting to standing position within a matter of seconds. Another option, unique in its adaptability, is the ATOM Breakout office furniture which was designed to respond to the way people interact with their working environments. It was developed to bring harmony to the workplace.
Collaborative Corporate Office Furniture
Tables for Collaborating
For conferences and meeting rooms, the right table is a necessary piece of corporate office furniture. Pegasus Meeting, Conference, and Boardroom Tables are a versatile and sophisticated choice. It comes in a range of dimensions and forms and is ideally suited as meeting, conference and boardroom tables. The Confluence Parsons Table for conference rooms or executive suites is another great corporate office furniture choice because it makes an enterprising statement.
Benching & Hubs
Corporate office furniture for open offices naturally produces collaboration. KINEX Height-Adjustable Benching brings so many features to an open office, making it one of the most popular bench desking systems available. SideBar Modern Benching and Desk Systems efficiently supports diverse work styles and flexible workplace environments. Shared workspaces can be individualized with multi-functional storage components.
Media Stations
It’s common for teams to all need to view the same visuals or presentation on one shared screen while working through a project. Narrative Media Tables are the perfect collaborative meetings tool for open plan environments. Place this media table in any team area and watch what happens. Suddenly, people are coming together to problem-solve, brainstorm, and create!
Breaktime Corporate Office Furniture
Breaktime Isn’t Always a Break from Working
Many employees can’t quit thinking about their projects, even when they are supposed to be on ‘break.’ And sometimes a break just means the employee needs to step away from their screen for a while. The thoughtful and creative minds of employees will often be working through problems, brainstorming, and coming up with ideas to progress a business project even when it seems like they are relaxing.
Smoke Breaks
Considering that many offices have health initiatives that encourage employees to quit smoking—having space for employees to relax can be an alternative stress reliever to smoke breaks. Often times these initiatives are tied to the costs of healthcare benefits being offered. The intent is to help everyone and corporate office furniture could help by offering an attractive, welcoming, and comfortable place for a break. Wind Contemporary Lounge Seating creates a relaxed and open atmosphere. It’s versatile upholstery options will easily blend in with a variety of settings.
Snack & Meal Breaks
Some employees need to snack throughout the day to help them stay alert and others like having set meal breaks where they can escape and enjoy a sandwich. One choice for corporate office furniture in these spaces is Caprice, an all-purpose, light-scale chair available with various leg configurations. Molded black arm caps enhance the comfort and durability of the chair making it a great seating option for snack and meal break areas.
Overall, Businesses want to get the job done and do it well.
If corporate office furniture can nurture an environment employees love, that means better business! When a business has high quality office furniture that nurtures a flexible work environment, employees will naturally adapt to using it in the way that best suits them throughout their workday and according to the project. Corporate office furniture shouldn’t necessarily even be noticed but rather it becomes a vehicle to get the job done and move the business forward.
Written by:
John Ofield
President/CEO at Collaborative Office Interiors
Collaborative Office Interiors is a complete office furniture and systems provider in the Houston, Austin and San Antonio area. COI specializes in providing high quality/low-cost solutions to companies that are moving, upgrading or expanding.
John opened ROSI Office Systems in 1993 and the company today is on Inc. Magazines’ Top 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in 2018. John specializes in new office furniture, space planning, new workstations, Work Fit products, remanufactured Haworth cubicles, asset management, furniture liquidation, and office furniture rentals.
