The height of your office screens impacts immensely on both the visual and acoustic privacy in your office. Choosing the best screen height requires finding a balance between the physical needs and the culture of your company. Some companies require more private spaces while others prefer an open configuration that allows employees to make eye […]
Have you ever stopped to consider where the idea of the office desk you sit at each day came from? Of course, desks of some description have been in use since the earliest of times, but the office desk as we know it has evolved over more than three centuries with many revolutions along the […]
Organisational ‘silo’ syndrome is a mind-set where barriers develop between and among an organisation’s departments and functions. The term ‘silo’ is a metaphor suggesting a similarity between grain silos that segregate one type of grain from another and the segregated parts of an organisation. Organisational silos are a problem for businesses both small and large […]
The 19th century saw the introduction of the mass-produced office desk…which up until now had been largely handcrafted to suit the individual… This was the era of the ‘Industrial Revolution’ and the office desk was expected to hold and do more during a day’s work… The ability to produce cheap machine-made paper brought with it […]
