Formal or informal meetings, individual work and coworking environments: each scenario calls for a specific, high-performing desk model.
Workplaces keep evolving. Concepts such as smart working and “co-” prefixes—coworking, cooperation—have become new cornerstones of today’s work culture, ensuring a more flexible approach that stimulates both professional growth and human connection. In practical terms, this flexibility has driven a shift in the design of spaces and furnishings: over time, a new, adaptable mindset has taken hold in both work practices and office layouts. The collaborative approach that sparks idea-sharing and constructive debate has complemented fixed stations with more dynamic, shared settings to support these exchanges.
5 Ways to Use Office Desks
A leading role in this transition belongs to office desks. As a reference point for people—both for personal items and as a functional tool—the desk was among the first furnishings to reflect changes in the world of work. It has adapted to the pace of contemporary teams, becoming more ergonomic and versatile, evolving in both form and function. Office desks now align with the new ways professionals work, whether employees or freelancers. Below are the different uses, with a focus on the models that Level Office Landscape has designed for every need.
Office Desks: Formal Meetings
The meeting room is central to any company: a place for decisions, reports and strategy. It hosts multiple professionals at once and therefore requires generous, highly functional surfaces. Here, the desk becomes the hub around which participants gather, with enough room to encourage interaction. Large multi-station tables such as Artic are essential. With a metal frame and an inclined rectangular-section leg, Artic suits sizeable rectangular or square configurations, making it ideal for formal meetings. For a more striking design language, Fjord—with its curved lines—is the choice when an oval form is preferred, or a rectangle with rounded corners to maintain seamless continuity. Fjord features a structure with flared, conical-section legs (painted or chromed) and a glass or pre-formed top with a beveled edge.
The XL02 model offers timeless elegance: a solid structure with an aluminium trestle, rounded chromed detail, and a suspended top in solid-colour melamine or wood effect, also available with a glass option. Versatile and suitable for both formal and informal meetings, Flat combines a four-leg frame with a double beam for rigidity, counterbalanced by light, clean lines.
Informal Meetings
For informal catch-ups—even with a small group—desks should still provide ample space, allowing a degree of autonomy while sharing the same table. Flat is ideal in these scenarios. Artic, with its generous proportions and 4-cm-thick top, also lends itself to informal use. Aspen is the most casual option: a high table with an integrated footrest to support comfort for every participant.
Office Desk: Coworking
Shared environments—whether dedicated coworking venues or in-house collaborative areas—benefit from bench solutions: elongated, sometimes wider shared desks that guarantee each professional an adequate working footprint. The L02 model is purpose-built and highly functional, with a rounded, chromed aluminium trestle and tops available in different finishes. Flat again adapts well to coworking layouts. The Basic desk is dynamic: a bench with shared or independent structures, versatile and easy to deploy, adapting to any context or requirement.
Independent Work and Office Desk
Even in highly collaborative settings, individual focus must be protected. Frame is well suited to autonomous work: a clean, geometric design with a solid structure thanks to the ring-shaped leg form. Basic, operational and dynamic with its minimal design, also fits independent tasks and can be customised with different finishes.
Corner shares the same qualities as Basic but features slimmer legs and a lighter look, while Nordic pairs four legs with a metal upper section and wooden lower section. Double desks are also possible, with a single shared top or two separate tops. Among ergonomic options, Alaska offers electronic height adjustment to support healthy posture. The single structure uses an inverted “T” leg; the dual structure connects legs with a beam and provides two independent work surfaces.
Informal Spaces and Waiting Areas
Lounge and breakout areas—akin to coworking zones but with a stronger emphasis on privacy—typically favour low or high tables such as Oasis, available round or square with a central column, and ideal for waiting areas as well.
Among high tables, Aspen also includes a footrest and reads as distinctly informal, thanks to its continuous metal structure and clean, contemporary aesthetic. The L02 bench can be transformed into a reception counter by integrating a front panel to suit client needs, with an upper shelf in solid material or glass.
More technology-forward, Tech Desk builds on the Flat model and integrates a smart touch monitor into the worktop. It is suitable for public-facing situations, phone booths and meeting rooms, and can accommodate sensors embedded in the surface to capture presence data and environmental parameters (temperature, humidity, and more).
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