Office Furniture Basics

When considering a new workspace project, it’s important to know your options. Office Furniture Basics is designed to help you establish selection criteria as you start to consider furniture for your space. Familiarize yourself with these basics and then let your OM Workspace specialist help you find products that fit your particular needs.

Panel System

Balancing workspace flexibility while providing associates the privacy they need to maintain focus and productivity is a common design challenge. With the right panel system, you get the best of both worlds.

Panel systems are adaptable to evolving office space and can be reconfigured to create different functional areas. They are sensitive to acoustics, can be designed for specific tasks and are capable of managing any cable-intense wiring your business requires.

Seating

A good chair is the foundation of your associate’s workability, as it is the center of his or her physical support system. With the appropriate ergonomic seating to fit associates’ needs, you will reduce workplace injuries and promote a healthy working environment.

In addition to task chairs, you need to consider the comfort and functionality of occasional seating, like conference seating, casual seating, stackable seating and guest seating — even soft seating for the reception areas.

Private Offices

Management space needs to be both task-intensive and able to accommodate conferencing. It also needs to reflect your company’s character. The challenge is to find the perfect combination of form and function: furniture that is durable and efficient, yet impressive and timeless in its design. With the modular designs of today’s casegoods, the options are endless.

We also take into consideration acoustics, storage options, shelving and organizers — with the flexibility for personal configuration. Durable varnishes and quality construction will help ensure ongoing satisfaction.

Conference Rooms

A conference room is a space that needs to be as stylish as it is functional. Whether meeting with a client, conducting an interoffice conference, or hosting a business seminar or informal conversation, flexibility is a must. You need to create a conference room that maintains the integrity of design and fulfills your desire for multi-task flexibility: expansive conferencing options, modular tables, traditional visual boards and visual cabinets.

Training Rooms

Comfort is vital to the learning experience. The right chair and table configuration can make all of the difference in how alert the audience is and how alert it stays. A training station system that can expand or contract to accommodate any size team might be the goal. You may consider training tables that adjust in height, have tilt-tops, provide wire management and link together, as well as units that fold and store easily.

One-on-one training can be enhanced by the use of flexible, individual, modular workstations. Linkable, stackable seating can prepare you for audiences of any size. Determining your range of uses will be the key in creating the most flexible design.

Reception Area

Your reception area should tell a story about your company by its presentation. An integrated reception station is the focal point of office communications. Our concept with reception is to design a strong visual presence that is consistent with the rest of your environment, but still distinctive in its purpose and efficient in its functionality.

Filing

Filing is an element of everyday business and has it own special needs and requirements to be functional. High-density lateral files come in multiple configurations. They can be designed as standalones, filing islands, integrated into a panel-based environment or wall units. Mobile and freestanding filing pedestals and storage cabinets can fit below any workstation or be tabletop for extra workspace.

Floor-to-ceiling Walls

The ever-evolving office space requires flexibility. Team-tasking and project-oriented collaboration demand space-dividing systems that are adaptable. These systems should be easy to reconfigure and capable of supporting a variety of work styles. They also need to accommodate the technical necessities of power, cable and wiring.

Architectural walls offer that and more: cost efficiency, easy integration and pleasing aesthetics. Use full-height walls to create privacy, with varied door options, segmented or working wall fascias, and wood veneer, laminate or glass finishes.

Communications modules can solve cable and wire managements within a team environment. Conference and meeting rooms can be made more practical with tackable walls and whiteboard fascia. Use vertical and horizontal reveals to make a statement.

Accessories

Accessories complete any job. Choose from a wide range of products to enhance the organization and ergonomic needs of your employees. With the variety of product offerings and styles available, the combinations are as unique as the individuals who are requesting them. Ergonomic accessories address health issues related to the ever-demanding tasks of your workplace. From clocks to trash receptacles, keyboard trays to telephone headsets, footrests to lumbar supports, consider accessories to outfit your space with the common elements needed to work.

Artwork

Finding and selecting appropriate artwork for your workspace can be a daunting task. We have access to a multitude of art. Originals, reproductions, prints, lithographs, etchings, photographs, sculptures and even fabric art. Let us help you coordinate artwork and matting, frame styles, textures, colors and display options — taking the worry out of choosing the right artwork for you and your space.