Office furniture for staff, how to choose the right products

The formation of the image of the company in front of customers and partners, labor productivity and economic indicators largely depend on the situation in the office. And mainly it depends on how properly selected office furniture for the staff, its convenience and practicality.

Primary requirements

An important role for the company is played by the interior design of its office. After all, the bulk of customers, visitors communicate with company employees here. Therefore, the main requirements are for furniture located in the office:

cost - when ordering a set of furniture, you should not save on its cost. This factor may subsequently affect the level of productivity and the quality of the company's staff. Office furniture must be made in accordance with the standards and have a certificate of quality. And saving is inappropriate here. There is a possibility that at a low cost you can’t buy good products, it can also be harmful to the health of employees using it. The desire to save a certain amount of money can lead to losses;
ecological properties - the priority should be furniture made from a material that is environmentally friendly. It should not be harmful to health, not cause undesirable consequences. The term of its use should be quite long;
high strength and ergonomics. Office furniture of a successful company meets all ergonomic properties, and is individually selected for each employee;
comfort level - furniture for employees must meet comfortable conditions. A significant part of the time workers spend behind the workplace. Choosing furniture it is necessary that it gives the opportunity to work with high productivity, to feel comfortable;
simplicity of design - the furniture should have a simple structure, and its assembly did not take a lot of time.

From the above details, you can add the general picture, which is based on the successful activities of the company.

This furniture should be comfortable, safe, excluding all manifestations of diseases associated with professional activities. The modern market presents its wide range:

desks;
armchairs;
Chairs
cabinets;
shelving;
shelves for documentation.

These include reception desks, cabinets, hangers. For the manufacture of office furniture using strong, durable material, which is resistant to various influences. Fastenings of structures must be strong and reliable, stable. The adjustments with which chairs and armchairs are equipped should provide the required height, the angle of inclination of the backs and armrests.

Materials of manufacture

The material must be of the highest quality, meet all the requirements of standards and hygiene rules. For production use:

wood chipboard (chipboard), which consists of sawdust and wood chips, impregnated with formaldehyde resins. This material is very hard, not suitable for fine processing. Its main advantages are the properties of strength and water resistance, low cost. The disadvantages include the presence in the composition of the material of formaldehyde resins released into the air. Office furniture for the house-keeper is made from it;
laminated chipboard (chipboard) in the form of a plate coated with a paper-resin special film, based on thermosetting polymers. The advantages of this material are a huge range of colors, a variety of textures under the tree, resistance to mechanical damage and to external influences. The disadvantage is the impossibility of carrying out the finest processing. Deep milling and production of parts of different shapes cannot be carried out;
finely divided fraction of wood (MDF), which is composed of small-sized sawdust. A set of furniture made of MDF is environmentally friendly. Its popularity in Europe is increasing every year. Of this material, office furniture is made for staff, as well as in the director's office. Its main advantage is the ecological purity of the material, characterized by the complete absence of formaldehyde resins. Instead of this harmful component, ligin and paraffin are used. It can be used in fine processing. Properties practically do not differ from wood, but at a cost much cheaper, does not require special care. The only drawback is the fact that in Russia there is no well-established production;
massif of natural wood (Veneer). Elite office furniture is made from this material, the advantage of which is high quality. Its processing is very capricious, dear, the required care is very thorough.

These are the main types of materials that are used for the manufacture of office furniture for staff.

Chipboard

Array

MDF

Color spectrum

The choice of the color background of the interior depends on the working conditions of the office, the requirements for its employees, the internal microclimate. With sufficiently large window sizes and large natural lighting of the working area, office furniture for staff is installed in a wide variety of shades. It can be practical dark, in different combinations of shades.

Light and natural shades look better if the room exceeds artificial lighting.

To create a businessly prim environment, it is customary to equip the office with cold shades. A friendly, creative, even relaxed atmosphere will create an atmosphere in warm colors. The human psyche optimally perceives such options when the color of the walls, ceiling, office floor is in neutral colors, and furniture is decorated with bright elements. They adorn the upholstery of armchairs and chairs, the laminated surfaces of countertops.

To create a focused atmosphere, business order, and seriousness, the combination of color headsets will become a highlight. Sometimes, on the recommendation of designers, the walls are painted in deep, dominant colors. Then the furniture should have a color that complements them completely.

Apply these options very carefully. In such an environment, the eyes quickly get tired, by itself it quickly becomes boring. Such a color scheme can stimulate the atmosphere, it must be applied where there is no strict official style.

In order to create fruitful and open communication, meeting rooms, in particular their walls, should have a rich tone of a natural shade. Being in a room with such a juicy palette for a short time will not be very tiring.

Traditionally, the office is equipped with cabinet furniture. It is dominated by a variety of colors and interpretations. But the most popular is the set of furniture set of those shades from which there is no irritation. They can be gray, beige, brown, black. Having picked up the texture of natural wood, you can create a unique cozy atmosphere in the office.

To equip the office, experts advise:

variegation and brightness of colors should be absent in office furniture, this threatens employees with headaches, overexcitation;
to enhance mindfulness, concentration, good faith, you need to fill the atmosphere with calm tones;
a favorable psychological background will be created by harmoniously combining cold, warm shades.

To create a single harmonious ensemble in the interior of an office space, you need to select color accents that are consistent among themselves.

The nuances of choice

Before proceeding with the selection of office furniture for staff, all working conditions of the staff should be analyzed. And only then can all the nuances of the choice of each subject be identified.

The most important items in the office are desks, at which the main part of each employee’s time passes. Convenient to use will be tables whose worktops are curved (semicircular edges) or rectangular. Their form is determined depending on the duties of workers.

If the work is connected with a computer, tables with a curved worktop will be more convenient. Thanks to the rounded edges, you can install the monitor on an outstretched arm, and increase the reach of writing accessories for the computer along its edge.

If the office provides for work with a large amount of paper documentation, desks that differ in a classical form will be convenient to use. They are easy to combine without losing appearance with the cabinets, briefing consoles, add-ons.

The main requirement for an office desk is the ability to hide office equipment cables.

In modern offices, teamwork is often provided, which increases the popularity of "workstations", where the tables (workstations) of employees are combined. These designs are efficient and economical.

A mandatory attribute of furniture is a cabinet for storing things and documents of employees. The offices provide for the use of stationary, more capacious cabinets or mobile roll-outs. An increasingly popular item for staff is an organizational tower, which allows you to store computer and office supplies.

In the office, cabinets where documents and clothes are stored are considered a demanded item. Unlike home ones, they are of better quality and larger parameters. When choosing office furniture for staff, it is worth taking into account all the nuances that will allow you to correctly equip the office.