The Dread of Office Desks
Here is an interesting fact. Scientific studies show that the average toilet seat has been found to have about 49 germs per square inch. While this information is quite not that surprising, there is something more we must know, especially to those who works tireless hours at their office desks. A recent study conducted by an authoritative group of researchers concluded that the average office desk harbors about 20,961 germs per square inch, which is 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat. It is indeed very, very surprising.
The crux of the problem isn’t working at one’s desk alone. Desks were just plain desks when workers had time to live the rest of their lives elsewhere. Now more than ever, office desks have become cafeteria trays, footrests, manicure stations and coffee bars. Employees eat off them, sleep on them and in several instances, flossed teeth at them. Utterly gross but admittedly true.
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September 19, 2006Office Furniture in Louisiana Goes Hollywood
Everybody wants to make it to Hollywood. Who doesn’t anyway? But in the progressive town of Shreveport, a particular office furniture company has already found it way to wonderland.
When Alissa Kantrow, a television and film industry veteran who is co-founder of Louisiana Production Consultants LLC, walked into the store on Bert Kouns Industrial Loop in Shreveport, little did she know how things would quickly change for Office Furniture Outlet.
“She came in and bought half of our showroom.” said general manager Chris Hermes. “She said, ‘I want everything on the left side on the showroom.’, I was just fortunate. Alissa Kantrow arrived just after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and didn’t know where to find furniture locally, so she asked someone who recommended the Office Furniture Outlet.
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September 18, 2006Office Desk 101 – Part 2
All designs vary so it is very important to choose wisely which one best suits the requirements of your work and your office. Take for example the managers desk. These type greatly differ from an executive desk because its user has a different line of work. From the description alone, there is already a difference in size. Most managerial desks will be placed in a work station that probably would not be as big as an executive office. Paperwork, data encoding are among the top functions that these types are used for. Also, a managerial desk depends on the position held by its user, the environment it will be placed it, the facilities it will be provided and the task of the user.
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September 17, 2006Office Desk 101 – Part 1
Office desks almost always represent the office. This is one of the first objects that would enter our minds upon hearing the words office furniture. Businesses involved in selling and manufacturing office furniture have come up with various designs, all ergonomically sound and stylish, that brings the importance of office desks to a new level.
A lot of innovative and smart ideas for office furniture are integrated into the pieces, all help to give the user comfortability and efficiency. There are a wide variety of designs to choose from like glass desks or carved desks. Office desks have tons of styles and kinds depending on what material was used. Teak and wood are one of the primary materials used for creating desks.
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September 15, 2006Special Drawers on Office Desks – Part 3
All you see or feel under the work station would be one log tube and you can just push it against the wall, all the cords are protected inside.
Another technique to keep the cord out of the way is by using the corner part of the office desk as a place to put all the cords. This is called the corner desk technique and it will work better if the corner area is situated or faced away from the areas where there’s always human traffic, or if it can hide unsightly cords keep them out of reach.
Some office furniture pieces even have pull up flaps. This is a special compartment that is hidden inside a desktop. This special drawer will allow you to roll up the excess cables in a bundle and leave it in that compartment. With only the wires you actually need coming out on the desktop you can organize it neatly and hook it up to your local network and power source. read more
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September 10, 2006Special Drawers on Office Desks – Part 2
Good thing the office furniture market, as previously mentioned, is keeping pace with what’s going on. Fortunately for office employees, this concern is among the few that the office furniture industry has addressed and they have come up with ways to go around such situations. They saw how the wiring and cables are a factor to an individuals work proficiency and have continuously developed ideas for office furniture that would solve this problem.
Nowadays, most of the office furniture offered in the market have computer cord hiding places, some even have a hole cut into the surface of the desk which will serve as a passage way for the computer cables that go through or underneath the work station thus showing only the parts that you need and the rest is bundled and stays under. This will clear the desktop leaving you with more space you can use for other things like file holders or folders.
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September 5, 2006Special Drawers on Office Desks – Part 1
H and L Office Furniture, a supplier of office furniture wholesale and retail in the whole of Australia, is noticing the needs of our business world today. Indeed it is hard to be at par specially in the world of computer and electronics. How are office furniture manufacturers keeping up?
Well, there are methods of research being done by those in the industry to find out what is in and to keep their products up to date. Every manufactured office desk will be delivered or shipped out to its user who will soon fill it with equipment, and as time goes by the number of equipment will continue to increase and before you know it wires and cables are all tangled and sticking out of the desk. Like your computer perhaps, it is basically composed of the monitor, keyboard, mouse and CPU, but it has cords coming to and from each one to power it up also to connect it to each other.
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August 8, 2006Webble: A Skateboard under the Office Desk
Employees today are slowly not being conducive to good health, mostly because they are stuck to their office chairs all day. The adverse effects of a sedentary, of office desk-bound lifestyle are well documented weight gain, lack of energy, concentration issues and poor health result when we spend the larger proportion of the day not moving. However, the lack of regular exercise proves to be the major factor in fat buildup. Unfortunately, with no time to spare for gym sessions, most workers are left hopeless as they gradually increase in weight.
There are simple exercises that can be done in the workplace that are a good substitute for workouts. An employee can just stand up and do push-ups or chair squats, but that wouldn’t be appropriate in a corporate environment. If only there was an activity that requires physical exertion that can be done just within the office walls or even just under the desk. Enter the Webble.
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July 1, 2006The evolution of office desks
The office desk is one of the office furniture that’s overlooked. It’s is only noticed for its utilitarian nature and users wouldn’t really give it much thought. Have you ever wondered who invented the desk or at least where the idea came from and how it was developed?
The office desk has come a long way with notable evolution on makes and design all throughout the decades it has been in existence. In the beginning, the office desk was merely created or made for the sole use of creating documents. It all stared back in the 17th century wherein, the reason previously stated did not require its size to bee too large or wide and with different compartments for storage. All it needed was enough room for writing and the user’s ink bottles and other tools needed to transcribe words onto paper.
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