Various types of office workstation design and types


Are you looking for various information about designing an office workstations? A brief understanding of workstations helps us to increase work productivity. In this article you can understand and look out different types of workstations along with its benefits and prepurchase check list.

Office workstation plays a vital role for an employee of any office and nowadays due to technological advancements and ergonomic product availability it makes ones office to be more flexible and accessible in nature by offering multitude of possibilities that lets to design a workstation with ones creativity ideas where every individual feels and likes to work in. With a proper design and style to the workstations it lets out a company to be more efficient in using its work place area which even helps to increase productivity and also cut down the costs by placing more number of people in a smaller area. In addition workstation also provides certain amount of privacy along with certain accessibility and sharing of information's between employees. Moreover if required the workstation can be custom planned and configured according to space specification as per work area.

Benefits of workstations


The workstation benefits are countless and some of important benefits are highlighted below.

  1. Office workstations are more functional and stylish.
  2. Ergonomic workstation assets helps us to avoid repetitive strain injuries.
  3. Well designed workstation layout along with its storage space, colour and flexibility helps to increase overall productivity of a business.
  4. Modular and ergonomic workstation helps us to accommodate various sets of working needs like shelves, drawers and many more.
  5. They are easy to maintain and environmental friendly with abrasive resistant and durability.


Checklists before selecting an office workstation


As workstation has huge emphasis on practicality with its design along with the issues on ergonomics and productivity certain points of consideration are to be taken before selecting an workstation.

  1. Initially decide what type of shopping options are you going to adapt towards your purchase.
  2. Based on the available shopping decide whether to go for a new or old workstation purchase.
  3. Next decide what each of the items you are going to purchase will be used for.
  4. With floor plan and number of rooms available look out at the overall size of an office workstation and furniture you intended to purchase.
  5. Finally check your budget and never forget to find a way to balance your budget with the quality office workstation and furniture you require.


Different types of workstations


There are different categories and ranges of workstations and with wide range and selection of modular workstation it helps us to get a new rich look. Moreover the nature of work is even reflected by its desk and workstation can be selected based on the type of business, office interior, budget from various range of colours and design to suit their creativity. Different workstation types are given below.

  1. Linear workstation or Straight workstation
  2. Cluster workstations or L shaped workstations
  3. Single seater workstations
  4. Single pentagon workstation
  5. Four Seater back to back workstation
  6. Four Seater pentagon workstation
  7. Cubicle workstation
  8. Designer workstation
  9. U shaped workstation
  10. F2 screen systems
  11. F3 screen systems


Linear workstation
Linear workstation
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Also called by its other names like straight workstation or row type workstation. This type of workstation can be in different sizes and normally will have partition in front of the desk with certain feet of height. The partition provided in respective sections have option for white board and fabric board for pinning up various documents. The surface has also different coating of materials and these types of workstations can be noticed in call centers, BPO and KPO industry.

Cluster workstation
Cluster workstation
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As the name indicates these workstations are in a group or bunch of workstations of more in number. These workstations helps out in easy accessiblity between different employees and probably used by managers, team leaders and it can be noticed in widely IT industry.

Single seater workstation
This is specially designed for an operation of an individual and these type of stations doesn't have any link or connectivity to its partner.

Single pentagon workstation
This type of workstations are covered by two sides with an opening at one end and suits more for an individual operations and are more privacy in nature.

Four seater back to back workstations
In this type of workstations the seating arrangements are made by facing back to back.

F2 screen systems
F2 screen systems are very rarely found in offices and they are customisable based on ones style and budget. Moreover F2 system workstations are recyclable in nature and also supports in built cable management and accessory support.

F3 screen systems
F3 screen systems comes in different ranges of touches, configuration styles and patterns and they are recyclable with additional built in accessory support.


Comments

Guest Author: kuldeep singh11 Jun 2020

Please look at the length of your sentences. For example, "Office workstation plays a vital role for an employee of any office and nowadays due to technological advancements and ergonomic product availability it makes one's office to be more flexible and accessible in nature by offering a multitude of possibilities that lets to design a workstation with one's creative ideas where every individual feels and likes to work in.". As an author, you need to know that a reader will have to read this sentence 6 or 7 times to get what you mean to say?



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