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How Your Office Furniture Can Change The Mood Of Your Workforce
Many offices often find their staff sitting uncomfortably, looking miserable and feature a lot of very negative gossip - though the mood of your workforce will largely be down to the employees you hire, there are measures that you as a manager can take to improve it and make work a more positive experience for all involved, from you to your staff to your clients.
Many managers don't realise the impact that the office furniture they provide can have on the mood of their staff, but it has been proven time and time again that it can be a huge factor. For example, placing your staff in cramped cubicles with uncomfortable chairs is unlikely to foster good feeling amongst your employees. They may feel isolated and penned in, which can lead to them resenting their job and this can be manifested in several ways, from malicious office gossip when the staff do get to interact to an unfriendly attitude towards clients when talking on the phone.
If you have a partitioned office, it's best to ensure that each cubicle has plenty of space and a comfortable chair for your staff member to sit on. Picking colourful office furniture will be helpful in keeping the mood elevated, as will encouraging your employees to individualise their cubicles with pictures of their families or items which they like to have around them.
If your office is more open plan with your staff working in groups or pods, the choice of office furniture you supply will still go a long way to ensuring that they feel good while at work. Again, uncomfortable chairs or seats which ignore the basic rules of ergonomics are unlikely to keep your employees happy as they will be spending much of their day trying to get comfortable and may well leave in pain.
The colour scheme of your office furniture can also go a long way towards keeping your staff happy; drab colours such as grey, beige or brown have been proven to lower people's mood, dark colours will make the office dark which again can hamper the positivity amongst staff, whereas light colours will aid the natural light in the office, helping to reflect it around the building. Sunlight has been shown to raise levels of serotonin which is the chemical that makes people feel happy.
When designing or redesigning a workplace, the furniture you choose to supply your staff with, can be one of the biggest factors within your control to keeping your workforce a happy, functional and productive group.
About the Author Thomas Pretty is a business manager with many years of experience organising his office. Find out more about office furniture at http://www.planscapeuk.com/
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