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Office Acoustics

Posted by: admin in Planning Your Office, Office Furniture, Call Centre Furniture on Oct 30, 2008

In today's modern, open-plan office environment noise can be one of the biggest problems, leading to frustration and lack of efficiency on the part of the employees. This is particularly true in offices - for example call centres - where people spend a lot of time on the phone. The biggest cause of excessive noise in offices results from noise reflections from hard surfaces. There are many hard

Tambour Cupboards

Posted by: admin in Planning Your Office, Office Furniture, Buying Office Furniture, Budget Office Furniture on Oct 24, 2008

Tambour cupboards are a recent addition to office furniture ranges. Their key feature is that they have roller-shutter type doors that roll into the side of the cupboard. This makes them much more reliable and user-friendly than the type that roll upwards into the top of the cupboard. Because the doors roll into the side of the cupboard they take up much less space that traditional filing

Height Adjustable Desks

Posted by: admin in Planning Your Office, Office Furniture, Buying Office Furniture on Oct 23, 2008

Height adjustable desks can be specified for a number of purposes:

For people with reduced mobility or other special need, for example to enable a wheelchair to be pushed under the desk. In some cases it can be a requirement of the Disability Discrimination Act to provide such facilities.
For people such as architects, graphic designers etc who often work either standing up or sitting

Office Accoustics

Posted by: admin in Planning Your Office, Office Refurblishment on Jun 05, 2008

Trying to make a noisy office more peaceful is a very difficult job for an office manager or even an office furniture dealer. There are many factors to take into account, and it is not as simple as just ordering a few desk top and floor standing screens. Whilst these may help, in some cases the difference will be almost negligible. The whole structure of the office and how it is used has to first be analysed.

Office Screens

Posted by: admin in Planning Your Office, Office Refurblishment, Office Furniture on Jun 05, 2008

There are two main types of screen available in the office furniture market, floor standing and desk mounted screens. The desk mounted screens is, rather obviously, fixed to the desk top by means or a metal clamping bracket. These are available in many different shapes and sizes to suit most desk styles and desk top thicknesses. The actual screen is usually around 43 cm high but can be taller or shorter to suit individual needs.

Office Relocation

Posted by: admin in Planning Your Office, Office Relocation, Office Refurblishment on Jun 05, 2008

As with moving house, office relocation can be very stressful and time consuming and it often falls upon a member of staff who has little or no experience in moving a business to organise everything and ensure the move runs smoothly. A badly planned move can lead to stress and downtime in the business resulting in loss of productivity and money.