There are a lot of factors to consider when organizing a business venture to be productive and reliable. With that many things up in the air, the question of office furniture can be quickly glossed over as not that important, which couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Let’s see why furnishing your office space with reliable furniture is an essential aspect of your overall productivity and success.

Good office furniture protects your employees’ health!

The number one reason why productivity drops for individual employees is health issues due to prolonged sitting throughout the work week. In regular cases, we spend around 6 to 8 hours sitting down. When crunch time comes, we spend considerably more time in a sedentary position.

Ergonomically designed office desk furniture and chairs are necessary to keep the damage of this kind of work-life in check.

Reliability

Yarra Ergonomic Mesh Task Chair

Now, this might not be as detrimental to productivity as chronic back pain, but low-quality furniture is an issue. Creaking chairs, problems adjusting the position armrests, and other issues may seem like small things, but they add up.

First of all, if you can’t adjust your furniture to suit you, regardless of its ergonomic design, you’re still going to be sitting wrong. Also, being annoyed by faulty equipment is detrimental to productivity as nobody does good work when irritated. Finally, one defective chair and one employee that goes ballistic due to dealing with it over a long time can cause a drop in productivity around the office.

The size that fits and the fit of the size

Arise sit to stand Desk Riser Ergolator

The design of office desk furniture and other office equipment is all over the spectrum these days. Sometimes the goal is to make office equipment into a statement by making it robust and imposing. The other end of the spectrum is a downsized, simplified, minimalistic approach to design.

It is easy to forget the utilitarian side of office furniture, which should be a priority. The furniture should fit the office it’s going to furnish and fit the people who’re going to use it. After you meet these two goals, you can do whatever you want but never compromise these two factors as they are a priority over everything else. Why? There are two reasons why crowded offices with bad “Feng shui” are bad for productivity, and oversized/undersized furniture is terrible for productivity.

So, keep these factors in mind when choosing your office furniture, and you should be fine. Remember, overall productivity around the office has a lot to do with how comfortable it is. Being irritated by low-quality furniture is a ridiculous way to put it in jeopardy.

We hope we helped you make better decisions and understand the value of a well-furnished office. Choose wisely, and your company’s bottom line will thank you for it.