3 Areas Every Office Needs In the design world, office space planning is increasingly the key to employee success. Many employers realize that the office layout can have a direct effect on their employees’ creativity and happiness. Whether your office is an open space or filled with desks and office cubicles, one thing remains constant – Read More
5 Best Office Plants Cool, crisp temperatures are right around the corner. Autumn is approaching. The leaves will fall from the trees and then before you know it, winter arrives turning the air (and your office) cold. Soon enough you’ll come to work when it’s pitch black and return home through the glare of the setting Read More
A Clean Desk Makes You Productive Feeling like you just can’t multi-task the way you use to? In the middle of responding to an email, you spot the half-finished report that’s due in half an hour—but you also have a meeting starting in five minutes. Oh, and the agenda for that meeting? Buried in the Read More
4 Ways to Shrink Your Office Space Expense A typical company’s office space expense is probably second only to payroll. It makes sense, right? You invest in strong talent and want to provide a work environment that is an inspiring place to be – but often times the “old school” office design layout is a vast Read More
The Evolution of the Office Cubicle In 2025 The common office cubicle has had a big impact on society; from influencing some of the great architects of the modern age, plus sparking debate and studies into the capacity that the average worker’s office environment actually plays. Its evolution has progressed over the years from old-school Read More
15 Cubicle Exercises You Can Do At Your Desk Imagine sitting at a desk for hours, immersed in work. You stare at the monitor in your office cubicle and your hands move quickly on the keyboard. But suddenly you feel your energy drained and your shoulders ache. Have you ever wondered what kind of stress Read More
The Right Desk Your desk. It’s essential to a productive, creative and innovative workday. It’s the place where you’ll make decisions, brainstorm ideas for your next big venture, or meet with team members, clients, and leaders to finish projects. It’s the central location where you’ll take your company to the next level of success. It’s important Read More
Home Sweet Office When you’re at home, you feel comforted by your warm walls, foot-friendly floors, and comfortable furniture. People decorate their homes because they love spending time there; it’s cozy and inviting. So decorating your office in the same manner will make it feel more like home and less like the daily grind. There Read More
It’s Monday – Time For More Office Dogs And Office Cats I don’t know about you but it’s raining AGAIN and I feel like Monday has hit me in the head with a hammer. I just don’t do cloudy all that well so I’m going to make my own sunshine in the office with this week’s Read More
Neocon 2015 Office Chair Favorites Just one week ago today, I was making my way to Chicago through pouring rain and, of course, the relentless Monday morning traffic. The Skyway bridge is always fun and a little unnerving, but the latter comes mostly from paying the $4.50 toll at the end. As I approached the Read More
New Office Furniture? Ask Yourself these 5 Questions You just received word that the promotion you received actually comes with your very own office. Better yet, the office is completely empty and you’ve been given free reign to choose your own furniture. There’s nothing quite like having your name on the plaque outside the door! Read More
Add Feng Shui To Your Office Whether you’re one of many workers in a row of office cubicles or the CEO with sweet corner accommodations, your office is the place where you are expected to create, inspire, and do your best work. But if you’re spending more time in your office managing stress and frustration than Read More
Eating At Your Desk Makes You LESS Productive If you are anything like me, you probably don’t get out of the office for lunch on a regular basis. Who has time for that?! It’s not hard to understand why – that can be up to 90 minutes wasted away at some restaurant. When I worked Read More
Exercise Ball vs. Office Chair Experiment My youngest son is entering 1st grade next year. When we went to visit his new school on orientation night, I noticed one of the classrooms had exercise balls for chairs. At first, I thought…so cool! How progressive!! I had an exercise ball at home in my closet (where Read More
Which Is Better? Standing Desks Or Treadmill Desks Three researchers recently crunched a bunch of data on standing desks and treadmill desks. I started using a treadmill desk in 2013 and have since moved on to a height-adjustable standing desk. Since it’s National ‘Get Fit Don’t Sit’ day (yes, that’s a thing), it’s a great time to talk about Read More
Can New Office Furniture Help Your Productivity? There are literally thousands of office design options to choose from, each as unique as the business itself. For example, open offices are designed to increase collaboration. Cubicles provide more affordable seating in a smaller space. Standing desks and ergonomic chairs put health as priority. Each design layout Read More
Are You Hot Desking? Once upon a time, your office desk was your home away from home. It served as a place to display your awards, favorite sports team paraphernalia and obligatory family photos. It became a nice little hiding place that gave you just the right amount of privacy to be productive without distraction. Read More
Budget Saving Tips for Your Office April marks the beginning of the second quarter for many companies so let’s do a budget check! Show of hands…how many budgets are still in tact? Let me guess, your budget has already been slashed, cut or otherwise left unrecognizable from what was “doable” at the start of 2015. Read More
Chronic Pain in the Office? Office Furniture Can Fix That Whether you work in an open office full of beanbags and espresso machines or rows of traditional office cubicles, chronic pain can still find you. The culprit is less where you sit than how you sit—and what you sit on. Poor posture, repetitive motions, and Read More
How To Organize Your Office Have you ever tried to work effectively surrounded by chaos? I’m not talking about audible noise you can hear; I’m talking about the noise your messy desk makes when it’s cluttered with junk! Whether you work at home or in an office, keeping your office desk and surrounding office space organized Read More