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Home office furniture – setting up a professional home office

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The traditional home office – once the place that housed a BBC computer that children played on after school and typed their essays, the place that Dad retreated to in the evening to play his music or make his calls uninterrupted, has had an abrupt about-turn in recent years.

With 33% of the UK workforce now designated ‘home office workers’, and the appeal of this status growing as large corporates and small businesses alike are weighing up the costs of increasing office rents, and the ability of new technology to provide a virtual office workforce, the home office, or study is taking on a whole new role.

Home workers spend an average 8 hours a day in their home office, so the environment needs to be accommodating, flexible and stimulating. Home office furniture plays a very important role in creating a suitable working environment. At an absolute minimum your home office needs to house a workstation – desk and chair, filing cabinet, drawers and shelving, telephone, printer and fax, and somewhere to store basic office supplies such as pens and paper.

Consider your requirements very carefully when selecting an appropriate home office suite:

How much desk space do you require in addition to that taken up by the PC?
Do you require a large amount of filing space?
Do you have books, CDs etc that you need to store?
Do you prefer working at a long straight desk or a corner desk?
What are your requirements from a chair – at the bare minimum it should be height and angle adjustable?
Who else needs to use this space at the same time as you, or when you aren’t using it, and what are their requirements?
What kind of environment are you happiest working within – ultra modern, or more traditional?
Do you want a desk with the PC integrated into it, or one with a monitor shelf and pull-out drawer that houses the keyboard?
When you shop for a desk make sure you have the maximum dimensions of the space it should go into, so that you don’t order anything too large.
Consider where to put the desk – most people benefit from natural light so working close to a window is advisable.

Whatever the arguments for or against, there are clear economic, environmental and organizational reasons to believe more people will work from home in the coming years, even if it’s a more hybrid combination of working from home, going to meetings and working from the office. Any form of home-work requires the right office environment- an environment that clearly divides work and home life and relieves the pressures that home working can sometimes create. If you research thoroughly and choose wisely your home office will be a highly stimulating, comfortable place to work and play

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Home office furniture – setting up a professional home office