Factors to consider while designing office furniture

The furniture is considered the attraction of any establishment be it a house, office or business space. In a contemporary workplace setting, these wooden fittings play an important role in the ambiance of the workplace, giving a safe and a comfortable feeling to all the occupant of the office. While designing office space, it is important identifying the influential factors that affect the productivity of work space. 

It is important to consult space planners, office furniture dealers and design professionals to provide sustainable, cost-effective and productive workplace facilities. The functional factors here relate to the fit between the furniture construction and the user's activities. Considerations in this group are derived from the goal, objectives, and related operations of each division in the office. The set of basic factors are as follows:

Operations and behavior of the organization
While the term operation is used to describe the general process by which an organization conducts its business, the term behavior is commonly used to describe an action by which the mission of the organization is accomplished. This suggests that organizations should carry out an analysis of their behavioral activities that the current or proposed furniture is required to support.

Analysis of cabling requirements
The workplace’s furniture planning needs to be provided with the volume of cabling that will enable staff to handle information and communication demands at desk level. The furniture planner should be able to respond to individual staff needs for telephone, data terminals and other information devices in the planning of the workplace’s furniture.

Budget allocated for Office Furniture
The amount of budget allocated to design professional furniture synthesizing the requirements of users, reflects the seriousness and the commitment of the organization to the exercise of furniture planning. Hence, a dealer must take care of the same.

Furniture Space adjacency requirements
For developing a furniture design solution, your Office Furniture Dealer needs to be acquainted with the furniture space adjacency demands among each divisional unit, as well as other divisions within the organization.

Development and implementation of furniture area standards
Nowadays, office furniture management has become a high priority for most office organizations, mainly due to the high cost of furniture, demands for more desirable furniture, and frequent adjustments required to accommodate the rapid growth or expansion of organizations.

Specification of common furniture
There exist at every workplace several types of common spaces such as meeting rooms, reception spaces, waiting areas, show areas and storeroom room. Common furniture could be the wooden fittings of these spaces. These common fittings are often identified by the fact that they are not managed or controlled by anyone in particular. So, in planning of such furniture, office furniture dealers must be more careful as the common furniture demands more care.