20 Tips On Presenting Corporate & Office Areas
Presenting a corporate and office area can be a challenge for companies, particularly for those that are still in an early phase of growth. For new companies, presenting the organizational layout—from company structure to office design—can be a daunting prospect. If you're facing this task or have helped successfully transform the workspace at your organization recently, here are 20 helpful tips on presenting a corporate and office area: 1. Present the overview
The first step in designing any space is designing an overview of what you want to achieve with it overall. This will help you determine exactly what aspects need to be taken into consideration as well as give you some direction as how to approach your design tasks.
2. Organize the approach Use an organizational chart
A great way to start approaching your design is to use a company's organizational chart. That way, you can: highlight any relationships between departments, create functional groupings for specific areas of office space, showcase key personnel and their roles within the organization. For example, if you're designing a new corporate headquarters for a company with many different departments and subsidiaries, consider grouping various departments together in one area of office space so that employees from one department can talk to employees from other department easily (if frequent communication is necessary). It is also important to take the organizational chart into consideration when designing office furniture, since groupings of employees working on similar or interrelated tasks should be provided with appropriate workstations. A popular way of doing this is with an U-shaped workstation.
3. Determining space needs Analyze your workforce
Consider analyzing the makeup of your workforce and its requirements for office space. As a general rule, take into account: overall space needs (from open spaces like flex/conference rooms to more individual workspaces), spatial requirements (from open surface areas like cubicles to special zones like private offices), community-oriented considerations (from areas for casual meetings and presentations to quiet spaces for focused work). Decide what type of space is most appropriate for your workers and their specific needs.
4. Address ergonomic concerns
Consider how comfortable your employees will be at work when designing new office spaces. You want to make sure that employee health is not put at risk by providing them with a desk, chair or other workstation that doesn't fit their body type very well. For example, consider the following factors: circulation, breathing, footwell space, height, seat width and footrests. Take into consideration your employees' various physical challenges (such as arthritis or other conditions which make it difficult to sit on a typical desk chair during long hours of work) when determining how they will be accommodated in their work areas. For ergonomics requirements at home, visit ergonomic.com
5. Define circulation requirements
While designing office space, you also want to consider how workers get around in that space. Look at: the flow of traffic around the office (from individual workspaces to communal areas, from "sitting" areas to "standing" areas and from meeting spaces to break/kitchen areas), how employees get from one part of their space to another and whether they will have enough room to move freely throughout their area.
6. Create specialized zones
In terms of individual workspaces, consider providing unique areas for your employees where they can work in a variety of ways. For example, a company that makes wine might have the tasting room for storing the wine and working in the tasting room. In addition, each employee might want their own desk space where they can sit at their computer or use one of the computers in that workspace as a modem to access their email or Internet.
7. Create different zones for different tasks
Creating several alternative zones will help employees work in simpler ways as well as have more individualized workspaces where they get different types of work done. For example, employees might have an "open space" workstation with a telephone and other communications devices where they can meet with their customers. Employees in engineering might have a more complicated "inner-Galilean" office area where they take measurements and use high-end test equipment.
8. Research ergonomic solutions
If you're still not sure what your employees will need in terms of workspace design, consider contacting ergonomists who design/use specialized equipment which can reduce the risks of repetitive strain injuries and other health problems. For more information on ergonomic solutions at home, visit ergonomic.com . 9. Create a detailed floor plan
Once you've considered all the aspects of office space design, the next step is to create a detailed floor plan. This will help you visualise the layout and determine where specific elements—from electrical outlets to lighting fixtures—should be placed in each room.
10. Create a render of your floor plan
Once you have created a detailed floor plan, consider creating a 3D render of it so that you can: get more familiar with how everything will look when it is physically built, make sure you have considered all possible elements of your office design and assemble all these elements into one design so that everyone can see the big picture. 11. Get help from an interior designer
If you can't afford to hire an interior designer, consider hiring a company that offers a part-time or freelance services which will be able to design the layout of your office space. If you're looking for someone who can design space for a smaller company, participate in an online job board or visit universities, colleges and schools that offer interior design courses or certificate programs. For example, Accredited Interior Designers (AID) offers free resources on their site. 12. Get assistance from architects and engineers
If you're designing office space for large corporations with high-level legal requirements concerning office plans and blueprints, get help from architects and engineers who have experience with complicated layout designs. 13.
Conclusion Once you've completed all the steps above, you'll have an office space that is much more functional, ergonomic, attractive and efficient. Good luck!
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