When’s the Right Time to Give Your Office a Makeover?
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Spending about eight to nine hours every day at our workplaces undoubtedly makes it our second home. The paint, the furnishing, and the décor in our offices prove to be major mood influencers. But experience too much of anything and you’re immune to its sway. This definitely puts office redesign on your list of unavoidable tasks to get done every few years. So, how do you know when the right time to design your office?
Here’s what you need to consider before taking that big step:
- To encourage movement and activity:
Often, sitting cooped up within the office in front of a computer screen can dull your reasoning power. With a little office redesign, you can think of ways to manage space efficiently to add in more than just the usual desks for the employees. Ensuring enough movement between working hours and activities that involve equal participation from every employee should be a priority when considering redesigning. So, if your employees are complaining of stiff joints and obesity, it is time to give your office a makeover.
- Customer Impressions:
Your office design and décor speaks a lot about the way you function, especially to you potential clients or customers. Sometimes, a glimpse is enough for your customers to decide on the quality of work to be expected from you. It is, therefore, vital to make a good first impression to bring in more clients in order to be given a chance to prove your mettle through your works as well. This is even more essential for start-ups and firms that do not have enough recognition to guarantee a conversion in the first few meetings.
- Breaking the Monotony:
Going through the same motions within the same space sets in a monotony, is detrimental to creativity. Paints and décor can influence our temperament a great deal, giving you an indication as to when your firm needs to break this monotony. Repainting the walls, refurbishing the office space, and bringing in a change as the brand and company vision evolves can give you a direction as to what your office design requires.
- Space Management:
New employees equal overcrowding. For compact office spaces, this can turn out to be a huge concern. Congestion can also result in low productivity which in turn would prove to be detrimental to the growth of the firm. Firms also compromise on meeting room areas to seat the addition to the firms. Review your staff strength and the layout of the office furnishings from time to time to keep a track of how to accommodate prospective additions to your team, or perhaps a plan with an alternative layout that can ensure space management.
- Workplace Collaboration and Engagement:
It is rightly said, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. One can hardly expect a sense of unity within a company when every employee focuses solely on the task given to him or her. To ensure engagement among employees, add a play zone or an employee lounge that offers a casual ambience for employees to spend their free time in. With more opportunities to lighten up with one another, and freedom of space to discuss work away from the boring work desks, you can expect brighter ideas from employees after the rejuvenating breaks. These breakout lounges can also give employees a space to ideate and brainstorm together and discuss work without the pressures usually felt.
Although these circumstances do not always warrant a complete makeover, starting with smaller changes over time can eventually give you the results needed at a pace that you company is more comfortable handling, both financially and practically.
Design Desk India specializes in enhancing the visual environment of work spaces, be it an office, factory or retail. Our design makeovers are fast and effective with no structural changes and minimum workflow disturbances and a quick turnaround.
Find out more on www.designdesk.in/environment-design/ or Contact us today on reimagine@designdesk.in
