The office is one’s second home. After one’s own house, it is the office where one spends the maximum time of the day. Thus, the office should be so designed so as to give comfort and peace to the person as well as reflect the personality of the person. The office furniture, the colors and the way the office is kept are all a reflection of the person’s personality. Due to all these factors, keeping the office well is of utmost importance.
Every office has clients or customers. The kind of the office furniture which is set in the office rooms as well as the waiting rooms projects the way the office is run and is an important factor for the clients and customers to decide whether or not they want to be associated with the given office or company. Most people think that the furniture or the colors used in the office are just a piece of work that needs to be done for the sake of it and its importance is restricted to the formality of keeping it. It is only a few who understand the underlying importance and pay the required attention to buy and arrange it so as to please the ones that visit it.
On the other hand, apart from reflecting the personality of the office and the way it works, the office furniture should also be such that it gives comfort to the person or persons who work there. If the furniture is too cluttered and takes up too much of the space, it might be difficult to move around and so the comfort of mobility in the office is compromised with. Also, if the number of chairs is less than a required number, then it may become a problem when too many members have to be seated in a particular room. Thus the decision of the number of chairs and desks should be thought of well before investing in the office furniture.
Apart from the desks and chairs, the office furniture also should have a lot of cupboards and racks to keep the files, DVDs or other forms of storing information. Some may require an open storage where the files or DVDs can be seen from a distance and so easily accessible. Others may require more closed forms so that they can be locked and the stored information is more secure.
If the room is big enough, apart from the normal chairs and a big table, one may also set a small table with reclining chairs for times when there is an overload of work and people may have to work past office hours. In such situations, rather than the normal office chairs, the reclining chairs can be used.
So the office furniture is not just any furniture one can go and get in some furniture selling store, it requires a lot of pre-thought and proper planning so that the one does not feel that the furniture is not as per requirement and comfort.
