Some Benefits and Drawbacks of Staff Workstation

An office worker who spends most of their time in the office every day, so the working environment can affect their emotions, even their efficiency directly. Therefore, for enterprises, designing a suitable and comfortable layout is vital to improve employees’ working enthusiasm in the office. Then, how many choices do you have? What is common and popular on the market? Following my steps, let’s explore it together.

 

 

Office furniture is the second face of the company, simply put, it represents the corporate image. Comfort, practicability, functionality are all essential factors that need to be considered. In recent years, the single computer desk，also called staff workstation, is widely used among many companies. Do you know why? Is it suitable for your company, the following content can give you an answer.

 

Why do so many companies choose staff workstations?

 

For employees

 

Improve communication and efficiency

 

Open staff workstations can create a working environment that makes it easier for teams to communicate and cooperate, and can well promote communication between employees. It can not only improve the work efficiency of employees, but also make the atmosphere more active, and it plays a good role in promoting the collaboration and cohesion of the company team.

 

Stimulate the enthusiasm and motivation 

 

Open staff workstation can break the lonely, quiet and lonely atmosphere of the office space, allowing employees to discuss and brainstorm together when facing a problem, to quickly solve the problem, and enhance the vitality of the entire office environment and the common passion of employees;

 

For employers

 

Flexible to arrange the position

 

Open office can be flexibly divided, layout and organization of functional areas. Flexibility is the biggest advantage and benefit of an open office. Whether it is the entry of new employees of the company or the departure of resignees, they can freely arrange the location of employees.

 

Have a better mutual supervision

 

An open staff workstation can play a very good role in mutual supervision. For example, it is not easy for the company to find other things when employees do other things during work in a closed office. While the open office is the opposite, your every behavior is in the sight of others, so it plays a role in improving office efficiency invisibly.

 

Increase space utilization

 

An open office environment can improve the permeability of our entire space, giving people a sense of broad vision and a large space when we see it; our space has been greatly expanded visually. Simply put, the open staff workstation improves the space utilization rate, saves partition walls and traffic area, and even the building area utilization rate can reach 80% to 85%.

 

Certainly, Every coin has two sides, when we enjoy the benefits that staff workstation brings us, there are also drawbacks.

 

Some drawbacks about using staff workstation

 

 

Easy to distract attention

 

Most people find it difficult to concentrate on working long hours in a noisy environment. Unfortunately, the open office is a typical example. When you work in a space with other people, any of their actions may attract your attention and start a conversation. One of the important reasons why people like closed offices with walls on all sides and doors that can be closed is that this kind of environment can help us concentrate. In fact, we can't handle multiple tasks at the same time, and a simple distraction can cause our energy to spread for up to 20 minutes.

 

Have not much privacy

 

The staff workstation mainly emphasizes the OPEN, where employees can talk freely. But no matter how outgoing you are, in nature, you still want to have a private space at your disposal. Therefore, when people pay attention to your every behavior, you will start to lack self-esteem, which makes you more nervous. That's because you feel that you are naked, vulnerable, and unreserved. In addition, since everyone can see each other, competitive and cunning employees will pay close attention to who is last and who leaves first. You will be evolved in the rat race unavoidably.

 

In addition, you will not be working all day. Sometimes, you will look for solutions to persistent problems in your life. This will only give the office an excuse for small talk.

 

In conclusion

 

Office layout can determine the employees’ efficiency and motivation to some extent, so the above advantages and disadvantages should be considered carefully. Also, when making the decision, that is redecoration, a private vote among employees can help you better understand their ideas.