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These days there is a plethora of TV programs and magazines imploring us to give our homes and gardens a makeover. This passion to improve our personal living space is not generally transferred to our places of work where many of us spend a considerable part of our lives sitting at a desk.

A well designed office furniture layout can boost both productivity and morale in addition to giving a better impression of a company to any external visitors. The costs involved in refitting an office are usually very modest when compared to the ongoing operating costs of salaries, rent, business rates and taxes and yet many companies are just too busy with day to day business operations to fully consider the benefits and potential return on investment. Office furniture and office layout often only comes under management focus when new employees start or when a business relocates or expands into new premises.

Once a decision has been made to refit an office consideration needs to be given to all important design. Key factors are how many people are to be accommodated, how much space is available and how much storage each team or person requires. The design then needs to be planned around the job function to be performed, for example an IT systems development team may have very different needs to a busy sales office where the phones are ringing off the hooks and background office noise pollution is a significant issue.

Where people are constantly on the phone it is often better for desks to be facing into walls or internal free standing screens so that individual telephone conversations become more private thus reducing overall office noise pollution levels. Where close team collaboration is needed desks are often better positioned back to back or in clusters so that team members are facing each other, though some privacy can still be offered by the use of low desk top screens.

Large open plan offices can be divided into smaller areas by the strategic positioning of storage cupboards, bookcases, filing cabinets and free standing screens which can avoid the need to install expensive physical partitioning systems. The use of breakout areas to de-stress and hold informal meetings is becoming very popular in larger corporate businesses to keep both staff and the Health and Safety Officer happy.

With so many benefits to be gained isn’t it time to think about refitting your office?