by Josep Maria Reichardt DESIGN FURNITURE FOR WORK AND ITS EFFECT ON CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIVITY:
We are in times of change. New studies show how designer furniture in the office has a direct impact on the occupational health of workers, the work environment and, therefore, on their productivity.
The ways of working and interacting in the workplace have evolved over the years. Nowadays, more and more companies choose to make teams with hybrid and collaborative tasks. This work methodology allows workers to maintain an active dialogue during working hours, so that the work spaces and the office furniture must be adapted to these new circumstances.
First of all, work furniture allows workers to carry out their tasks safely and respecting their health. This point is key, since in the long run poor furniture can cause pathologies such as low back pain or tendinitis. Likewise, an inadequate work space or furniture can encourage the development of mental disorders such as anxiety and depression and cause the dreaded burnout, characterized by maintaining an attitude of indifference, carelessness and lack of productivity.
No company wants its employees to be unhappy, basically because the viability of the company depends on them. It is common knowledge that a pleasant work area reduces absences due to absenteeism, improves creativity and creates synergies between workers.
For this, furniture is necessary that helps to encourage a satisfactory work environment, creating comfortable work areas, with diverse spaces to hold meetings, hold informal talks that allow new disruptive ideas to enter and unblock employees from situations of stress and high Pressure.
These premises are not only applicable to work environments, more and more schools, academies, institutes and universities rely on professionals to create spaces to apply this open and versatile work methodology.
As for school furniture, more and more organizations choose to change their furniture to adapt to the work space design furniture that allows applying cooperative or collaborative pedagogies. The main pieces of furniture that need to adapt to the new times are, first of all, the tables. The tables make up the nerve center where ideas are communicated. The main novelty is that the tables are versatile, that they can be joined together or also function individually. Secondly, it is of great importance that ergonomic chairs avoid back pain and allow correct posture to be maintained.
These small changes have a direct impact on the attitude of people in reference to work areas. Nobody wants to work for hours in a place where they do not feel comfortable or where after working hours they find themselves with physical pain or mental discomfort.
It seems unbelievable that a detail so overlooked in other times is the current key to motivating workers and students to get the most out of it. In short, updating work spaces and furniture is essential to attract great talent, improve employee productivity, renew and improve the work environment and direct the company towards the new modus operandi, based on continuous dialogue, collaboration, negotiation. There is nothing better than taking work as a personal challenge, in which we want to improve, feel comfortable and can be creative. All this is possible thanks to the updating of furniture, in an easy and accessible way, and it has a great impact on the future of companies.
