The décor and set up of your office not only impacts the view of your customers and suppliers but also impacts the productivity and output of your employees. Small changes made in the workplace may have an impact on the growth of your business to a certain extent.
Think as if you are an employee and not an owner. Try to identify and understand the hindrances to your productivity. These might be anything ranging from an uncomfortable chair, large number of co-workers in a small space, noise from outside or even a clumsy entrance. To put it more clearly, an office set up that gives more space to employees, helps them interact easily with their co-workers, explore creativity and use their talents to the fullest. At the same time, it must be kept in mind that there should not be many distractions for the employees at the workplace.
Following are a few things to consider in your office space design and how they impact your business:
Entrance & Foyer: A nice, clean and uncluttered entrance helps in creating the first impression on the clients & customers visiting your office. . Employees at the same time would feel refreshed while entering the office in case the entrance itself is welcoming. Apart from a clean and smooth entrance an important aspect to creating the first impression on clients is the foyer. The entrance should have sufficient space for visitors to wait. You may look at using some indoor plants nicely placed at the entrance.
Inside Décor: Importance of décor may vary from business to business. For example, office of a builder or a construction related business should focus more on wall and floor design and try to keep it subtle whereas an interior designer’s office should be more creative and innovative. The décor of the office reflects the values and character of a company and its employees.
Lightning and temperature: We clubbed these two items because more subtle these two are more is the impact on customers and employees. Temperature and lightening in office should be such that it does not irritate the client or even the employees for that matter. Both these factors, if noticed, should only be appreciated. Extreme temperature and bright lights might result in draining the energy of employees. Whereas controlled temperature and natural lightening will make the employees more comfortable and productive. For sales offices that require long hours of discussion between staff and the customer, temperature and lightning might affect the timely closure of the deal.
Sitting arrangement: This is another aspect important from both client and employee perspective. Think through this deeply before finalizing. For client especially in a business that requires regular client visit & hours of meeting and discussions, the arrangement should be made keeping the clients privacy in mind. For example, in an investment broker’s office, a client might not be comfortable discussing his financials in public. He would need his space and comfort to discuss. Similarly for employees the desk arrangement should be such that without affecting their privacy encourages healthy departmental interactions as well.
There is a sea change in the thinking of today’s entrepreneur. They look at a larger picture from their glass cabins. Entrepreneur these days prefer more and more innovation in design for their office such as to reflect their values and goals. Following are a few benefits that your workspace extends to your business:
The way your office is decorated and run send strong messages to clients and customers and creates an image in the market. Though, we see so many benefits of a workspace décor and design on a business, all these benefits are difficult to be measured and quantified. In other words, the impact of design and décor of your office on your business and profits cannot be measured in terms of numbers. It is almost impossible to define a formulae or process to calculate the impact of workplace environment on any particular vector of the company. Thus, one has to be observant and rely upon the qualitative effects to understand the effect (which for sure is significant).
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