Simply Improve Working Conditions In Your Office
Improving an office environment is often seen as an expensive and disruptive process that must involve a physical upheaval.
In these current times of austerity, your company may not have the funds to justify a full scale refurbishment, but there are steps you can take to enhance an office environment without costing a great deal of money.
In addition. whilst a broad brush approach is often beneficial and sometimes necessary to reorganise working teams, or to incorporate more, or less people into an area, all improvements need not come about in this way.
Here are five cost effective ways of making what can be significant improvements to an office environment without too much disruption.
The Colour Splash
You can brighten up an office or change the look and feel, without necessarily redecorating the whole area. Consider adding feature panels of colour to individual walls, or painting columns or pillars in certain areas. This can usually be done cheaply and without needing to decant an entire office and yet can transform an environment. If bright colours are appropriate go bold; even if they are not and a more formal appearance is required a deep contrasting colour can work wonders.
The Water Splash
People need water to function. Although the law only requires an employer to provide adequate access to fresh drinking water this can be enhanced relatively cheaply by installing either bottled water machines or a supply from the mains, which is then chilled. The advantages are that staff will probably get into the habit of drinking more, which in turn should help them be more alert and function better. Also, if the coolers are spaced closer to staff there is less time spend walking to a main kitchen area every time a glass is refilled.
The Green Effect
Adding plants to an office can help in a number of ways. They help improve the air and humidity and also break up long dull walls with a natural soothing effect and colour. Similarly, adding fresh flowers or potted plants with a display of colour either from flowers or leaves in a reception area can help make a good first impression on staff and visitors.
Pictures
Pictures can work in a similar way to adding a block of colour and need not be expensive. Photos can now be printed relatively inexpensively onto large canvas frames. As an additional way of involving staff you could not run a competition to find the photos that will go on the walls.
Dump It Day
If these four changes are still more than your budget will bear, then why not settle for a good clear out. After a few years in an office rubbish and debris accumulates and spending half a day filling bin bags can give an office a new lease of life. Arrange for all staff to come into the office in mufti and provide a pizza lunch as an incentive and take the opportunity to reorder filing and clear out desk drawers and cupboards to make for a more efficient and smooth running office.
For more advice on how to improve the working conditions in your office or to discuss a reorganisation in your office give us a call or drop us an email and we will call you!.
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