Effective office strategies for a good office design

Introduction

The office space you use for your brand and work is a crucial factor that determines the appearance of your workspace environment and the decisions you make in your professional life. When deciding what needs to be done in your office design there are certain things that you must keep in mind like the following:

1.   Select the concept

Select the kind of walls or layout you wish to have in your commercial space, as this dictates the kind of work environment you eventually create and develop over time.

a.    Open floor plan

Deciding the kind of plan that exists in your office floor helps in building the work culture in your office for future uses. Your floor plan is what builds the identity for your future office space.

1.   Unrestricted working spaces

If your office is a place where you want no restrictions and a flow of open communication going for this type of an office plan helps in maintaining a slightly informal setting letting it breed creativity. This is a style of office that works wonderfully in jobs that need creativity and collaborative teamwork.

2.   Cubical working spaces

Working spaces that require continuous work that is repetitive and people need to keep focusing on it without wasting their time on mindless chatter. Adding cubicles gives people the freedom to use their spaces to their own creative liberty and work in a way where they can do the best of their work in their spaces.

b.   Glass wall plans

Adding glass walls to your floor plans helps your floors to have more spaces for collaborative conversations and more creative liberty. Designing these spaces can be made with the cubical layout and the unrestricted spaces. This provides you with spaces where you can interact in terms for transparency.

2.   Openings strategies

When designing offices keep in mind the spaces that you need to allocate no matter what for basic circulation of air and lighting. Keeping spaces for windows, balconies matters a lot as it helps people design them along with what matters.

a.    Lighting  

Keeping spaces separated for natural light to flow in and spaces for shade is very important as it provides your space with views into the outside environment and also reduces the amount of noise pollution.

b.   Ventilation

Providing spaces with windows, fans, balconies, exhaust fans, along with ACs and air purifiers. Adding ventilation helps your space have good amount of air circulation and prevents suffocation.

3.   In-door spaces

Having spaces allocated in your designs helps plan it better and design it in a more functional manner for more accessibility.

a.    Greens

Dedicating spaces for greens helps in adding more oxygen to your workspaces, which improves the amount of air circulation by reducing the carbon dioxide in the air.

b.   Activity-specific spaces

Stating spaces simply for specific areas, such as kitchen spaces, phone booth areas, and game zones, where only particular activities can take place, helps people designate themselves to those spaces, allowing them to focus better on their work.

4.   Construction materials

Choosing the right materials for the construction of your office helps in making your office durable and align with your belief system all while not losing the charm or elegance of an office with an air of professionalism.

a.    Green materials for construction

Based on your beliefs and values choose the kind of materials you want to be used for your office and its construction it also helps if your brand aligns with those same values by helping it bring your brands values across to your stakeholders.

b.   Durable materials

Design the space with the use of materials that last a long time to help your workspace stay and speak for the test of time.

5.   Space allocation

Remember to leave spaces for the kind of workspace you want to create, include your values in it when creating your office, this helps reinforce your beliefs in your stakeholders and employees as they work.

a.    Accessibility

Adding spaces for accessibility helps your making your office more available for people with disability and makes you open to a wider scope of people who can work for your brand.

Conclusion

Designing your office need not be difficult, designing is it as simple as deciding what your brand stands for and how you can implement those ideas to people around you in the most convenient way possible.