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Office Design Tips to Increase Productivity

As a working professional, your livelihood depends on your ability to produce high-quality work within a reasonable timeframe. Therefore, maintaining a high level of productivity at all times is essential to both your professional and personal success.

However, sitting in an ugly, cramped office is the surest and easiest way to send you running to your favorite websites to waste time. This lack of productivity allows your valuable creative juices to escape. Luckily, you can adapt the design of your office in a painless and inexpensive way that’ll increase your productivity.

Follow these simple tips to easily turn your office into a space that encourages a productive workflow.

Comfort is Essential

Your chances of churning out high-quality work rise substantially if you’re comfortable in your own office. Ensure that your office space is well ventilated. A window is ideal. However, if your office lacks a window, use plants to promote airflow. Leave your office open to keep it from feeling like a stuffy cage.

In addition, ergonomics should be a high priority. Invest in an ergonomic office chair, keyboard, and mouse. Good lighting is also essential to avoid eyestrain while sitting in front of a computer. Get both a desk lamp and an overhead light for a well-lit office.

Color Therapy

Choose a subdued, cool color for your office that promotes tranquility and focus. Colors such as light blue, fern green, or white tend to encourage effectiveness. Therefore, they’re ideal color selections for your office.

Stay away from warm and dark colors. Avoid colors such as orange, red, and magenta. These colors are very distracting and heavy on the eyes.

Aesthetics

Though most professionals hate to admit it, the aesthetic appeal of your office space is an important factor in determining your level of efficiency and happiness on the job. You should have an office you’re proud to show off. Create a space that makes you feel like an executive, no matter what position you hold.

Wall colors, plants, the finish of furniture, lighting, and window treatments all play a vital role in the aesthetics of your office space. However, you’re the only person that can determine the right aesthetic direction for your workspace.

Efficiency

If you must get up from your seat and walk across the room, you’ll interrupt your work focus and return to your desk with a blank mind and a confused expression. Items that you must access regularly during the day should be just a desk chair roll away. Make it a point to keep the following items within arm’s reach:

Printer
Fax machine
Scanner
Phone
File cabinet
Other commonly used tools or documents

The strategic placement of these items maintains an uninterrupted work focus that’ll shave valuable time off of your routine each day.

A Touch of Personality

It is a fact that you spend a great amount of time in your office every week. Therefore, it’s essential that you feel as if the space is “yours.” Personalize your office by hanging artwork that you find enchanting. You can place photos of your family on your desk, and bringing along a snazzy throw pillow that accent your office’s overall color scheme.

Viken Mikaelian

Viken Mikaelian is the CEO of PlannedGiving.com and Major Gifts LLC — the resource for all your major and planned giving marketing needs. Viken is available for speaking engagements on planned giving marketing, personal development and time management at viken.net. Connect with Viken on LinkedIn.

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Office Design Tips to Increase Productivity

Follow these simple tips to easily turn your office into a space that encourages a productive workflow.

Comfort is Essential

Color Therapy

Aesthetics

Efficiency

A Touch of Personality

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