The most important feature of good office design is functionality. But very often our offices are crammed with so many office machines, equipment, supplies and pieces of paper that our small or home offices are completely dysfunctional.
● Do you have to move things out of the way before you can sit down and work?
● Are there so many papers on your desk that they’re spilling onto the floor?
● Do you need to contact a search and rescue team to find whatever it is you’re looking for?
- Then it’s definitely time to roll up your sleeves and organize your office.
- You can have the most attractive, up-to-date office design available and still not be able to accomplish what you need to do unless you organize your office.
- These steps for an office makeover will show you how to organize your desk and your office space so that you have an office design you can both appreciate and work in.
1) Clear the pathways.
- A friend had a coffee table in the middle of his office – which made moving from the desk to the filing cabinet a shin-cracking task for anyone without the agility and balance of a trained acrobat.
- As he never entertained clients in his office, the coffee table was only used when he set things on it. If you move the coffee table out, you’ll give him a clear walkway – and save him a lot of potential shin damage!
- Are there furniture obstacles in your office design? You can move them or move them out entirely. Consider you need to be able to walk around.
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