Office Design Guide
Office Design Guide
The way your office is designed says a lot about your business. The appropriate use of office design and finish out will enable you to portray the culture of your organization, reinforce your brand values and deliver a working environment in which your employees can thrive.
Today's offices are generally becoming more stylish, sophisticated and welcoming. What's more, savvy businesses have recognized that there is a clear link between the quality of the workplace, productivity and employee satisfaction.
A great working environment doesn't happen by accident. Creating the right office layout requires a lot of office space planning and office costs budgeting. In order to get your office space to be the welcoming and productive environment you're looking for, you need to have office design at the forefront of your mind when looking for office space.
Items you need to consider when starting the office space planning process are; the size of your company, your office design budget, the type and age of office property, the image you want to portray through the office design and the type of office space layout required (open plan, offices, partitions, meeting rooms, reception areas and facilities). All of these items need to be addressed as part of the office design briefing process.
The way an office is designed & finished out conveys important messages about the company itself. Office designs can be highly valuable branding tools and good office design also needs to contribute to employee satisfaction.
In today's increasingly mobile workforce, office design needs to accommodate all types of employees. The office space planning process must cater for employees who are not in the office all of the time (staff might be out on the road, working from home - or both).
An increasingly popular solution for the modern workplace is to have open plan offices with cleverly designed cubicles & partitions. The key advantage of this type of office design it that the occupier can utilize the maximum amount of office space for their budget.
It also helps foster teamwork & collaboration, employee recruitment & retention - and greater productivity. Furthermore, the open plan/cubicles solution can help reduce unnecessary office rental costs as less office space is required.
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