For people who must go to the office everyday, their office furniture plays a truly, critically important role. The furniture is a supporting player to all the work that will get done in an office. The chair and desk, especially, are vital in the workplace for getting any work done quickly and productively.
Office staff are frequently heard complaining about the furniture being an impediment to their work. Common complaints include furniture pieces being too big or too small for the available space; inadequate furniture for all of the different functions that need to be served in the office; individual furniture pieces being in disrepair and badly in need of updating; inadequate storage (file cabinets, filing systems, shelves, drawers, etc.), and poor ergonomic design overall.
If a desk is too big for a room, for example, it will hinder work flow by blocking employees from moving about within the space comfortably. This can force the staff to have to squeeze into chairs and press up against the wall just to maneuver. That sort of environment is certainly not conducive to productivity! If a desk is too small for staff to actually use, it can be very bad for office morale as employees feel defeated before they even get started.
Is there anything worse than having a staff meeting and being short-chaired? Or almost as bad, not having enough chairs with back support. No one wants to get stuck sitting on a lousy stool for a 2-hour meeting. What about a mangy, sawed-off couch for the staff lounge room (ah...how relaxing! thanks, boss) or tables that wobble? Or employees not being able to file and find needed documents on a moment's notice because the office furniture does not include shelving, enough file cabinets, or drawers.
Probably the worst problem with many office furniture setups is poor ergonomic design. Even with ergonomic office furniture widely available, many offices are still not equipped with the proper adjustments to minimize the possibility of injury to their staff. Repetitive stress injuries cost businesses millions of dollars in reparative medical costs and missed work. It is a very serious problem. What is most frustrating is that it is a largely preventable problem.
Address this problem by having an ergonomic specialist visit the workplace to evaluate the workers and how they physically perform their duties. They will suggest improvements and equipment that could possibly help prevent injuries. For example, chairs may be too high or too low; computer monitors may be at an uncomfortable viewing level or too close to the workers; staff may not be properly lifting boxes and other heavy items, and workers may also need to be taught how to know when a posture or movement may put them at risk.
The human body was not originally designed to sit in an office cubicle all day, typing, answering the phone, sending faxes, and looking at computer monitors. But since that is how many human bodies spend each day, it is very important to make the environment as safe and comfortable as possible.
Kathy Hildebrand is a professional writer who is easily bored with her "day job" assignments. So, she researches anything and everything of interest and starts writing. Writing about an extremely wide variety of subjects keeps her skills sharp, and gives her food for thought on future paid writing assignments.
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