The aesthetics of the workplace have a positive impact on the productivity of employees, making them feel at ease and welcomed as if they were in a familiar space. Likewise, a working environment with a contemporary design is able to communicate the company’s values to guests and customers. So here’s how to optimize the office space to make it more welcoming and productive.
Knowing the Working Environment to Improve the Office Layout
The working environment is the key to a successful company. The positive climate between colleagues, collaboration and efficiency are important matters that an excellent layout can facilitate. Therefore, before making technical choices, the designer in charge of giving a new look to the workplace must have a clear understanding of the company dynamics and the style that reflects the values of the brand.
Functional choices go hand in hand with the daily activities that each individual department need to carry out during the day. Open spaces with shared workstations, private offices and meeting rooms are distributed inside the space only after a careful analysis of the routines of the employees. Recreational spaces, crucial to create inclusive and collaborative offices, must be designed according to the available square footage and include at least a kitchenette where employees can spend their lunch break.
Workplace Design, How to Optimize Space
The main color palette is the first element to choose. Usually designer start from two main colours, which can be harmonious or contrasting, and then develop other neutral or accent shades, to customize office furnishings and accessories. Same for the materials: once the finishes for the floors and walls have been chosen, it’s time to decide which kind of partition walls are worth the installation. Blinds with sample color infills, transparent single-glazed, double-glazed glasses, or with the application of coordinated graphics designed by a dedicated creative team.
Finally, we move on to the definition of the materials and colors for the furniture, starting with the desks, which a monochromatic structure and top or with contrasting nuances. The worktop can be customized with different materials able to evocate warmth when they take up the textures of wood.
The Importance of Lighting for Innovative Offices
True innovation within the workplace is not linked to digitisation itself, but to the creation of a system that allows to easily change the atmosphere of the working environment. Lights, for example, are crucial for the wellbeing of workers, capable to promote productivity or relaxation, according to their intensity. With integrated systems it is therefore possible to design the combination of lights and activate different scenarios through displays installed on the wall or apps available on smartphones and laptops.
Nowadays the trend is to let as much natural light into the interior environments. When not possible, designers use different lighting scenarios. Diffused lights contribute to the general lighting, while spotlights create the so-called technical lighting, which allows for the correct amount of light to be provided on the workstation, making it ergonomic.
Improve the working environment with Level Office Landscape
All the measures to optimize the office space and make the workplace more welcoming are the basis of the Level Office Landscape projects. The Valletta Brianza company specialize in the design of innovative offices is able to customize the environment and make it unique through the skilful use of lights, colours, materials and finishes, drawing from a rich catalogue of furnishing and dividing walls.
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