How can your office environment affect your productivity?

You spend a lot of time in your office, here are some tips to change your environment and improve your office productivity.

If you are spending 8 hours of your day in the office with the same people then you need to make sure that the office environment is as productive as possible.
You want to know that you can go home from work knowing you put everything into that day and got the most out. Otherwise, both the business and the job role isn’t benefiting anyone.

To make sure that you have a productive day you need to be working in a productive environment and one way you can do this is to make sure the office environment is just right. Here are just a few things you need to consider when creating the perfect office environment for you and your employees:

Comfortable seating is a must have

This doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to have arm chairs or beds available for your employees to lounge away the day in but comfortable seating is something you need to consider when fitting out an office.

Office furniture like that from Egan Reid is essential to make sure that you not only provide each employee with the right seat to sit on all day but an essential desk place too.

Choose seating that supports their back, is comfortable and also works for your office environment.

The right lighting is key

With so many of us now spending too much of our day staring at computer screens, it is beneficial to both your employees eye health and their productivity if you take a bit of time to get the office environment right.

Where possible make sure to have lighting that isn’t too bright and is reflective of natural light. It is great to have windows or sky lights to make sure that there is always a natural source of light coming into the office. However, where this is not possible you make sure to have lighting that imitates this.

Get the temperature just right

For most offices they will be a conflict between whether the office is too hot or too cold. There might be air conditioning blasting out throughout the day, radiators on and still people not quite right.

To get the best temperature it is a good idea to make sure your office has windows which you can open. This will let in fresh air and regulate the temperature so that you don’t have to keep turning the air conditioning on and off. The benefit of this is that you can allow fresh air into the office rather than recirculating the same air.

Try to keep the noise under control

One way to keep the office productivity at an all-time high is to make sure that you have the noise under control.

Some offices may prefer to be chatty or loud but having some quiet time to work is beneficial. This allows you to focus fully on the task at hand and steer away from distractions.

You could try to implement this by introducing a quiet hour during the day or two periods where people should focus on their own work rather than meetings and discussion.

With all these tips under your belt it is time to make your office more productive.

Owen Gough

Owen Gough

Owen Gough is a reporter for SmallBusiness.co.uk. He has a background in small business marketing strategies and is responsible for writing content on subjects ranging from small business finance to technology...

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