5 innovative ideas to keep in mind while designing a new office layout


If you are designing your new office layout, you need to keep some important things in mind to consider and compare for betterment of your office. This article features the 5 innovative ideas and useful tips to consider while creating a new design of an office layout.

In the present day competition of business, companies give priority to fetching good number of customers' traffic sources. To do so, the office of the company is understood to be its center of action plan. Hence, all care and attention should be paid by the company owner or individual for making the office business and customer friendly. Well, if you are planning to move to another new office, it can be of even harder experience for you because you will have to begin from the very beginning again.

There are quite a good number of vital factors to keep in mind while you plan your new office layout considering the communication, space convenience and your business management. Here are my important tips and factors to consider before you design your final layout.

Top 5 Office layout designer ideas


Scale your office space and segment it


While choosing and moving into a new office location, please make sure you have duly measured the new office space and verified that it would be adequate to afford all the employees as well as the office furniture. It should also have the additional capacity to provide space in case of increasing recruitment of staffs or any other emergency. Please make sure that you have chosen your new office space on a long term calculation. Then proceed for segmenting and sketching out how to construct the different departments in which direction according to your new office plan.

Partition your office with Open plan space


Generally, there are two ways to make partitions for different departments in a office – open mode and close mode. In open mode, employees can perform their individual tasks as well as communicate with each other easily. But in closed mode, each department or specific employee has a separate chamber and they can either talk over extended telephone or meet in a conference hall to discuss several issues.

Out of these two modes, I recommend to go with the open space method of partitioning because it will help the staffs complete their tasks and communicate mutually at the time of need easily. Again, open partitioning with glass is far better than plywood or fabric sheets. Because by using glass sheets, you can help the staffs communicate more conveniently to save time. Moreover glass partitioning also provides an elegant look to your office and attracts the modern day customers very much. Take a look at a sample design of a portion of a new office layout in open format with glass partitioning which I have created for your better understanding.
A sample view of a portion of an open office layout with glass partitioning

Provide ample value adding spaces to the employees


Do remember that your employees are your company's growth. Hence it is very important that you provide ample spaces to the employees in the open format office which add values to their tasks and thereby fulfill the company's target. This helps in yielding good turnovers in time. So, any kind of space you provide should not cause any harm to the employee's sentiments in any way i.e. you must leave enough break out space for the staffs.

Ensure natural ventilation, light and power supply


Whatever your new office layout is going to have, you must take utmost care to ensure two important things for your employees at office. First one is natural ventilation and light which is very essential for life as well as the up keeping of the employees' sound health. This helps them and you to complete the quota of works in time and achieve the target.

Secondly, since all the works are being computerized, you must arrange a constant power supply to provide non-stop processing of works as well as lights to all the spaces for managing their resources easily.

Apply the renovation and redecoration principle forever


Well, if by now you have found your successful layout of new office, you should not be satisfied. There is one last vital point to note. Since, time and situation always change; you need to change your office decor ideas time to time. For this purpose, I advise you to dwell in the refurbishment ideas of professional specialists who can determine the best suitable changes to your office according time and situation of the business.

Conclusion


I believe I have given you the best office layout idea for new office space. Apply these important decor tips for your further improvement of business and never forget to give me your feedback below! Take out some minutes and post your issues if any. I will be at my earliest to help you further with pleasure.


Comments

Author: Sukhdev Singh23 Nov 2012 Member Level: Gold   Points : 6

You have provided a good introduction about the importance of the office of any organisation to get more business and the customers to the organisation. To have an office accommodation as per our wishes may be quite difficult but we should make use of the best available office space whatever we can lay our hands on in the overcrowded and over populated cities of these days. The décor and arrangement in the office ought to be done according to the space available rather than making the adequate space available for accommodating the furniture and other requirements of the office.
I found that the open space in the office of the RBI of the city was changed to the closed one with an involvement of a lot of investment. The separate cubicles were provided for each of the officers and the clerical staff. However, I don't think that the performance of the employees and the office has improved in any way by doing this. Both the systems have their own advantages and disadvantages. We should weigh these advantages and disadvantages while making any changes in the system.

Author: K Mohan16 Apr 2014 Member Level: Platinum   Points : 4

I think while designing a office much care has to be taken on the following issues. Firstly the office must be reachable to the employees. That means the office premises must be located in such a place where in the employees can come and go with ease with the available transport. Secondly all the basics requirement must be addressed. There are some good office but lacks the canteen facility for refreshments to the employees and that is very bad planning. So giving a thought to some basic requirement of employees will go a long way to accept the design of a office with full heart.



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