Whether you are moving your office to a different location, larger or smaller, or you are just looking for a way to maximize your current office space, you will possibly need to buy new business office cubicles. You may not be aware that there are several ways that you can conserve money when shopping for new business office cubicle components and maintaining their layout, while at the same time keeping employee well-being and improving workplace performance.

Turn Sheetrock Wall Offices into Office Cubicles

First of all, there is a misunderstanding that if you are coming out of a sheetrock wall office into a space in which you will use business office cubicles, you will need to install the new workstations to be exactly the same size as those earlier being used. This is just not true. An office cubicle is more productive than a conventional desk and credenza setup, and it can actually give you more office workspace in a fraction of the size of a conventional office. For example, a 10’x12′ office with a 36″x72″ desk and a 22″x72″ credenza equates to the same square footage of workspace as an 8’x8′ office cubicle or even a 6’x8′ U group.

First, it is important to note that building a sheetrock wall office requires more money in general than designing an open floor plan that uses office cubicles. In addition, a sheetrock wall office needs more floor space than its footprint may suggest when wall thickness and hallways are also taken into account. By using business office cubicles, more employees can be placed into a smaller space (smaller space relates to lower rent), and they can still be given the same amount of workspace that they would have had in a sheetrock walled office.

Use Smaller Office Cubicles – Gain Larger Workspaces

You may preferably be starting out with a floor plan that uses 8’x8′ office cubicles. If you reduce these spaces to 6’x8′, and you are working with a leased square footage rate averaging $25, you can keep $400 per year per employee on rent. However, this does not mean that you will be putting your workers in less suitable office cubicles, which could negatively affect the working conditions. There are many ways to maximize the updated space to be used to its fullest and, in fact, you can wind up with more workable space in the smaller office cubicle than you had before.

Take Advantage of Developing Technology

The days of big, heavy computer monitors are becoming a thing of the past, and the trend is now toward flat-panel monitors or even laptops. For this design, you no longer need to factor workstation space that will be used by a large monitor and computer setup into your office cubicles. When CRT monitors were approved, you would have needed to set up an office cubicle in a three-piece L – a corner work surface (which would have been taken up frequently by the monitor) and two straight surfaces coming off of either side. But, with smaller computers taking up less space, you can alternatively work with an office cubicle in a two-piece L – two straight work surfaces that meet in a corner that no longer needs to be as deep as it earlier did. That is one less workstation to buy, which saves you money.

In addition, a lot of today’s offices are now going paperless. This means that workers need less storage space in their business office cubicles than they may have in the past to store hanging files or documents. The office cubicle may also have had two overhead cabinets – one closed bin and one open shelf. These would have been required when everything in the office used paper. However, now that more plans are saved digitally, you may wish to take a new look at exactly how much of this space is currently required.

With a close analysis of your workers’ office cubicles, you may find that instead of paperwork filling their drawers, workers now have empty spaces – or spaces sparsely populated with individual items. While it is essential to not remove spaces for personal items solely, you also want to ensure that your business office cubicles have little wasted space. As is often the case, you will find that staff will expand their usage of their office workspace to fill what they have available – even if they do not need all of it for work and personal items. Once you have studied what spaces are actually needed to guarantee that employees can operate efficiently and comfortable, you can start to cut down the number of office cubicle elements that you purchase, excluding one of the overhead bins, for example, or one set of file drawers, and conserving money in the process.

Improve Your Cubicle Space Layout And Design

The next step would be to improve the layout of your office cubicles while making them take up a more modest footprint. For instance, you can take an 8’x8′ L office cubicle arrangement and turn it into a 6’x8′ U configuration. Amazingly, this will give your workers more square footage of workspace, not less. Instead of 28 square feet of work surface in the 8×8 L configuration, the worker using a 6×6 office cubicle in the U configuration will have 32 square feet of work surface – all in a footprint that is 16 square feet smaller. Plus, you should always try to include existing sheetrock walls into the layout of your business office cubicles. By using the office sheetrock walls, you can avoid buying additional panels.

If you look closely at the office layout and make these necessary changes, you will find yourself with two new alternatives – the capacity to lease a smaller space that can fit the same amount of people, or the capacity to fit more people in the original space by performing a redesign of your office cubicles. Either way, you are saving a great deal on space and on rent.

Limit the Powered Components

You can also save money by reducing the number of power panels you place within each office cubicle. Powered panels will always be more expensive than those without power, so cutting back is a simple way to save money. You can limit the power to the panels along the backbone of a set of cubicles. If your cubes are running against walls, you can take advantage of existing electrical outlets on walls by using power strips or by using the walls as part of the office cubicles themselves instead of partitions.

You’ve presumably seen lots of commercial offices with mismatched furniture, damaged desks, unstable chairs, and cubicle partitions that have seen better days. But you have more choices, and they don’t have to ruin your finances. With Cubicle Office Furniture Store (COFS), you’ve got a wide choice of sturdy and effective furnishings that are fairly priced for any budget, be it great or small. You can even choose refurbished cubicles that combine the affordability of used office furniture with a facelift that makes them look as great as their price tags.

Call for a free quote today, and take advantage of COFS complimentary space planning services. We can help you find the commercial office furniture that you need, and create a workspace where it all fits together perfectly.

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