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14 Jul Sitting Doesn’t Have to Be a Pain in the Butt!

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Selecting the right desk chair for you and your team is not as easy as it seems. Purchasing an office chair can been seen as a seemingly benign choice, but choosing the wrong one can make a significant impact.

Hopefully, we all know that going out and buying the cheapest chair you can find is not the best solution. It can cause a heap of long term troubles, ultimately having a negative impact on your business. Remember not all desk chairs are created equal, so here are a few things to consider when purchasing a office chair.

Visual Appeal

When a visitor or potential client comes into your office for the first time, before anything is said, the first impression of your business they have will be the aesthetics of your workplace and chairs are apart of that.  Presenting quality chairs that look comfortable, sleek and overall aesthetically pleasing, will show your visitors that you pay attention to details.

Health Considerations

By now we are all aware that sitting down for extended periods of time in a standard office chair can lead to all types of health complications. Remaining in a sedentary position for 6 hours or more puts excessive stress on your spine, which is the genesis of back, shoulder and neck problems. However, a good ergonomic chair is designed to provide relief to these main areas of your body that are prone to stress while sitting at work.

While ergonomic office chairs are not the complete resolution to every single issue that comes with sitting down for too long, they offer the best remedy with their auxiliary benefits.

One Size Does Not Fit All 

Consider using a higher quality ergonomic chair over a standard chair. A standard chair has a fixed design with the average person in mind. But people come in all different shapes and sizes; so investing in a standard chair is just asking for future problems. A quality ergonomic chair with adjustable back, seats and arms makes it more suitable to fit anyone’s size and shape.

Overall it Benefits You Team

Choosing a the right chair will have an invaluable affect on your employees. A couple of the most notable effects include:

Increased Productivity: Quality chairs make productivity easier for your team because each individual will be comfortable and able focus entirely on the task at hand.

Increased Office Morale: Providing stylish quality ergonomic seating will give a strong sense of value to your employees which will in turn boost your team’s morale and positively affect their overall attitude while at the office.

Contact our team of experts for more information. We have over 25 years of experience in office design, and will be able to help you find the perfect chair for you and your team.

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02 Jul Tips on Improving Office Posture

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Tips on Improving Office Posture

 

There are plenty of common habits carried out in the office setting that can prompt poor posture if you do not monitor your form. After a while these habits can become second nature, developing bad posture and damaging your spinal structure. Here are some important instructions that you need to keep in mind to maintain the ideal posture and eliminate impending physical issues.

Identify the Early Signs of Poor Office Posture

These are some of the early indicators that you may need to change up your day-to-day habits:

  • If the level of pain you feel routinely increases at a certain point in the day or week. This could be caused by bad and prolonged posture starting to take its toll and may be an indicator that something needs to change.
  • If there is pain in your neck and it is making its way down your back over time. Damage to the spinal structure from bad posture begins at the top of the spinal chord and works its way down.
  • When you feel pain at first, but then it disappears once you change your position. This is almost certainly due to your posture.

Whether these early indicators define your experience or not, here are a few tips that will help prevent or eliminate physical issues due to posture.

Know What Counts as Good Posture

Align your ears, shoulders and hips. According to many healthcare sources including spine-health.com, the ideal posture can be achieved by keeping your ears, shoulders and hips all in a straight line when you are sitting or standing for an extended period of time. Experts claim that you may feel a small amount of discomfort at first because the spine is being strengthened and acclimated to the right posture, but it will disappear in short time.

Also take note of your tendency to lean to one side, hunch over your desk or cross your legs and try to avoid these unbalanced postures.

Get Up and Move

When your muscles get tired, it leads to slouching and bad posture. In order to combat this, you need to change your positioning frequently and one way to do this effectively is to take a break from sitting altogether. The consensus in the ergonomic world is that if you have a sedentary job, then getting up to walk around and stretch every half-hour for about 2 minutes or so will go a long way in preventing posture related issues.

Avoid Over Protecting Your Posture

At the end of the day, your spine was made for movement so eep your overall posture aligned but relaxed. Developing stiff and/or unnatural postures will only cause further complications down the line.

Get Yourself an Ergonomic Workstation!

Perhaps the most significant preventative measure against bad posture in the office is a workstation designed to keep you upright and healthy. Ergonomic desks and chairs like ours were created to keep all users – no matter shape or size – healthy and productive with features like lumbar (lower-back) support, adjustable height and swivel motion design.

Check out our office furniture that can help have you make an ergonomically correct workstation or visit the CBD blog for more tips.

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29 Jun Benefits of a Modern Office Cubicle

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Benefits of a Modern Office Cubicle

Cubicles have revolutionized the way people work for decades; however, they have garnered a rather unfavorable reputation as old-fashioned and superseded by the forthcoming open office design. Yet, the cubicle offers quite a unique set of benefits that a pure open office design just cannot provide. So instead of erasing the idea of the cubicle completely, check out these benefits on why they may be perfect for your team.

What Makes a Modern Cubicle Modern?

Usually when the word cubicle is mentioned, the idea of grey fabric panels and 3 walled faceless squares come to mind. Contrarily, the modern cubicle is anything but this. With variety of colors, partition sizes, partition materials and configurations, cubicles nowadays can liven up any office atmosphere with these additional bonuses.

Cost Efficiency

Investing in ultramodern partitions beats investing in walls for an office any day. Especially in the midst of the go green era, cheaper recyclable materials make cubicles the cheapest they have ever been.

Space Utilization

Gone are the days of the boxy, space consuming standard cubicles. Now, cubicles take up less space than before with sleeker designs and they come in all different configurations and sizes to custom fit the space you have.

Why Should I Invest in a Modern Cubicle?

For starters, productivity is sure to rise for your team if they take advantage of the separation that modern cubicles provide. With an open office plan, visual and auditory distractions are a huge impediment to task-oriented productivity. Focus can be easily broken and difficult to re-obtain, so it may be wise to consider a nice up-to-date cubicle for the remedy.

In addition to resolving output issues, modern cubicles provide all the privacy needed for handling confidential tasks or viewing e-mails without worrying about wandering eyes. One of the most valued elements of job satisfaction is employee privacy and a modern cubicle is just the thing to provide it. It serves the purpose of a small personal office so each individual can feel relaxed in their own space.

Another feature that the modern cubicle provides, perhaps just as important as anything else is the sense of egalitarianism. Traditionally, higher-ranking members of a team would be secluded in a plush space while everyone one else seemed to be packed into condescending cube farms with an inherent sense of insignificance to their organization, however modern cubicles are designed to make everyone feel like they have meaningful position in their company. This will definitely increase your team’s overall morale.

These are just but a few of the many benefits that come with using modern office cubicles. Consider having these benefits and getting to enjoy much more.

Cubicle by Design has office designing specialists with over 25 years of experience who are able to advise you from the earliest stages of change and assist you throughout your decision making process. Contact us for more information.

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