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Today’s offering hasn’t got much to do with office furniture, but here it is anyway. Continue reading »
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Whilst our main business is supplying office furniture, we try to offer as much advice and information on our website, in the hope that it might help our current and potential customers!. We have written many articles on what is a very wide reaching and comprehensive subject, and hopefully some people have leant something from our scriblings Continue reading »
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a 1950s Steelcase Desk
According to an article in The National Post a vintage Formica-topped Steelcase desk with its original key, built in the 1950s can be worth a fortune. In retro boutiques in Los Angeles, New York or Toronto, a vintage steel desk, cleaned, stripped and polished, can fetch $2,000 or more. Its hard to believe, but people are now scouring second hand furniture warehouses looking for such retro furniture to do up and re-sell in trendy design shops.
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period of several months, competitors, in teams, have to carry out a series of business related tasks. Each week, Sir Alan fires one member of the losing team. What’s this got to do with office furniture?
bistro chairs canteen furniture canteen tables restaurant furniture Most reasonable sized offices have a staff canteen or breakout area where employees can each their
Canteen Furniture
lunch or take their coffee breaks. CH Workspace, a large office furniture dealer, has a wide range of canteen furniture available from stock. The furniture available ranges from traditional bistro style tables and chairs through to modern designer canteen furniture.
budget furniture DIY filing reception areas reception counters receptions In our first article on how to make your own office furniture we showed you how to make an office desk and office chair from scrap. In this article we will attempt to make more complex office furniture items, again from scrap materials. Once you have your desk and chair you will probably need some sort of filing cabinet. Continue reading »
chairs choosing an office chair DIY height adjustable desks jokes office furniture silly jokes silly pranks If you really want to economise of your office furniture you could attempt to make your own desk. In order to do this there are a number of strategies you could employ.
Home Made Office Furniture
First you need to find a desktop – many people find that a door is a suitable size and shape, so its probably best to start looking here. Firstly, try to find a flat, wooden door. Taking down your office door would be very convenient, but make sure that you don’t need it later – putting the door back is harder than taking it down. Continue reading »
funny stories office anecdotes office jokes office pranks office stories silly jokes silly pranks We have already posted a blog on office furniture pranks, at last somebody seems to be taking us seriously! Comedy Central, who are broadcasting The Office, have recently conducted a survey on fun in the workplace and found these rather surprising results:
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office laughter levels have dropped by 50%
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1 in 2 of us are too scared to share jokes for fear of recrimination from the boss
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1 in 5 say they never crack a smile during a working day
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14% have stopped talking to colleagues for fear of being thought of as lazy
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Practical jokes have dropped by 66%
It seems that the effects of the credit crunch are more far-reaching than we first thought. Continue reading »
Back in the 1980’s I was working for one of the new American software companies that were taking over the world. In a few years, about half a dozen of these companies established sizeable offices in every country in Europe, and I visited most of them. They were all the same style and it was hard to tell what country you were in.
ergonomic chairs office design office furniture office furniture advice office furniture health and safety seating space planning Most people suffer the post prandial doldrums, when concentration is difficult and sleep seems to be the only thing you can think about. So you sit there, in a semi conscious daze until something snaps you out of it, or try to get through some of your work on autopilot. Very dangerous if you are a surgeon or an airline pilot, unless you are, of course, on autopilot.
But recent studies have shown that this feeling is normal for our bodies, as more energy is directed from other functions in order to digest our lunch.
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