Is Your Office Space Layout Helping Or Hindering Your Employees?

Is your office space layout functioning as well as you hoped it would

, or are the first cracks starting to appear? What about a formal study asking what employees feel about the current office space layout and what improvements they would like to see made to improve daily life and productivity?

Without doubt it's easy to just keep going with everything staying exactly as it is - let's face it, it's a very big pain in the behind to start changing everything. The problem is that the current layout could even be hindering employees rather than helping them do their job.

Maybe now is the time to start asking some questions:

- Do employees spend too much time traveling between the various rooms in the office to get tasks done?

- Are there rooms and areas that remain unused for large parts of the day? Meeting rooms, conferencing rooms and cubicles are all worth a look.

- Are some areas far too cramped and overcrowded therefore hindering quality work output?

- Are there enough furnishings for everyone or is there a fight over desks etc?

- Is there plenty of equipment for everyone to use or do you need to fight your way to the photocopier?

- Are employees having to use cushions on their office chairs to make otherwise awful chairs usable?

- Is overcrowding forcing employees to use the coffee shop far more than they should be?

- Is the space cluttered full of bags, coats and umbrellas due to lack of storage?

- Is the lighting good enough or are additional lamps being brought in to compensate?

- Is the ventilation and air conditioning up to speed or are employees having to find an open window for some cool air?

- Is the heating up to speed or are employees wrapped in layers of clothing?

- Is your office space dark and gloomy with out of date or dull decoration?

- What about the pictures on the wall - are they feel-good, uplifting pieces of art, or just cheap, nasty and awful?

Summary

There are undoubtably many more points to consider but if research shows that your office space fails on many of the above - action is needed and fast! You may well be able to address all of the problem areas yourself as many points wont require special tools or workers. On the other hand, it may be better to bring in a professional team to deal with bigger issues and also to get any modifications done more quickly. Whichever way you decide to go, it will be an investment as results in the office will no doubt show!

by: John King

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