Office Organization plays an important role in increasing the employee’s performance and company reputation. So, how to set it up to maximize those values is a given question to all employers. AfA would like to sum up some ideas to help you, hopefully.
What do we do to organize an office
When you set up an office, you might take care tons of things like choosing furniture, organizing them logically, locate lighting, other electronic devices and natural sunshine, v.v, Design Layout will be the first step of the progress, including:
- List the rooms/areas needed decorating or reconstructing: departments in company, managers’ private rooms, common space, pantry, meeting room, entrances, …
- The locations of each area
- The acreage of each space
All space are listed in a good map that will help the employers has a clear picture of their office.
The important factors of an effective office design
The purpose of usage:
Once when you think of the purpose of usage, you care of the true needs of company and employee. You must answer some questions like how many meeting rooms you need, how large the meeting room should be, what your employees expect in common space,…
The connections between spaces
The location of each department inside an organization is considered as an importance concern. The departments that have a tight connection with each other should be located together. That makes information are delivered timely and accurately.
Airy space
It is necessary to divide rooms that are airy. An closed working space will give more pressure on employees, then the stress will be increasing accordingly. Instead, airy space will provide more fresh air inside, people tend to be more relaxing in those spaces and give a better performance as a consequence. The acreage of each room and the location of lobby are 2 factors you mightbe take care of. These make the room for moving and how airy the area is.
Aesthetic Emotions
The aesthetics of the office layout is reflected more deeply in the organization of the inner funiture than in the layout of the office. However, you can enhance the aesthetic by adding green trees in some areas and community space, …
User Experience
The major purpose of office design is bringing the good experience to the users. Whenever consider an office layout you should think of how your employees use it, what they expect on their working space by putting yourself in their shoes. For examples, People who work in Marketing department or work on creative jobs might need an airy space for brainstorms, they might prefer flexible seats and open-spaces. It may be a good idea to locate their room nearly café room for an example.
If you are the person who is in charge of designing new office, studying office planning is the first step. You might not the person who draws the office layout but your perspectives will help your supervisor get clear what you both want for your office. We hope the sharing above will assist you to have a better understanding in office design. If you need a professional consulting agency, AfA is surely a good choice, please contact us anytime.
