Designing open-plan office furniture and workspaces in general is an excellent idea for companies. However, it is advisable to surround yourself with a professional team who can help you create a space conducive to the well-being of your employees and the efficiency of your teams.
How do you set up an open-plan office?
It's important to create an ergonomic, modular environment that's adapted to your business. This is to minimize the potential nuisances associated with open-space working. It's essential to create functional workspaces, and to consider the acoustics of the space and any potential noise pollution. Indeed, offices that are too noisy can be detrimental to both your company's productivity and your employees' well-being.
5 tips for creating a healthy and productive working environment:
- Design a warm, friendly space that reflects your corporate culture: it's important to create a reassuring workspace with a pleasant, neutral decor;
- Create one or more independent meeting rooms with acoustic panels: these can provide a quieter space for certain meetings;
- Establish rules for community life: Open Space offices are spaces shared by all. It is therefore necessary to define the rules governing how they work and live together;
- Create modular spaces: which can be easily rearranged according to internal organization with modular offices.
What are the advantages of open-plan offices?
- Greater team cohesion;
- More efficient teamwork;
- Smoother, more transparent communication;
- Increased responsiveness;
- Modular office furniture design that evolves with the company.
An infinite number of possible layouts
Convinced by Open Space? Now's the time to create your own layout. There are two ways to do this: design it yourself, or call in a team of professionals.
Designing your own open-plan office:
Creating a pleasant space for your employees is no easy task. It's far from the simplest solution and, contrary to popular belief, it's not necessarily the most economical, but it's not impossible. However, there are a number of things to bear in mind:
- Take into account the layout needs of your teams: individual or adjustable desks, meeting rooms, storage, tables... ;
- Create brightness and appropriate lighting to prevent eyestrain;
- Check acoustics and soundproofing to ensure that your Open Space office is not too noisy (think acoustic panels);
- Use adapted equipment such as ergonomic office chairs.
Call in a team of specialists in open-plan office design:
Depending on the size of the company and the number of employees working on site, it' s best to call on a team specializing in corporate interior design or office layout professionals. Their expertise and experience will enable you to quickly make the right choices and optimize the layout of your open-plan offices.
The help of an expert will be useful to you to have a layout plan without noise pollution, with modular furniture and plenty of storage space.
Solutions M3 supports you from A to Z
Since 1998, Solutions M3 has partnered with thousands of customers across Quebec. Our mission is clear: to bring happiness to employees by creating stimulating, pleasant and high-performance workspaces. Our specialists in comfortable, ergonomic office furnishings will propose solutions and products adapted to the needs of your company and your employees.