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Choosing The Right Office Design For Your Business

By Miles Liesching
7th Nov 2023

The layout of your workspace not only impacts its ambiance and functionality but also significantly influences employee productivity and satisfaction.

Choosing The Right Office Design For Your Business

Should You Refurbish Your Office or Relocate

What happens when your current workspace starts to feel stale? Should you invest in commercial refurbishment or take the leap and relocate altogether?

Keeping a Business Open During Office Refurbishments

With careful planning and strategic execution, businesses can navigate through the challenges of a refurbishment without sacrificing productivity or jeopardising client relationships.

Making Your Workplace More Accessible

Ensuring your workplace accessible to everyone is not only a legal requirement, but it also creates a positive and inclusive work environment.

Office Design Tips to Beat the Heat and Boost Employee Productivity

When it comes to warm weather, maintaining a cool and comfortable workspace becomes even more important. Employees who feel hot and uncomfortable are more likely to become restless, fatigued, and less productive.

Crafting the Perfect Coworking Environment

Designing a coworking environment can be a rewarding experience. First you need to identify your target audience. What kind of professionals are you trying to attract? Once you have a clear idea of your target market, you can start planning accordingly.

Designing an Office: Employee Health & Safety Considerations

Professional space planners like the team at Westcountry Group can provide your employees with a work environment that minimises risk and promotes good health and safety practises on a day-to-day basis.

How Can Office Refurbishment Improve Employee Wellbeing?

While there are many things to consider when attempting to improve employee well-being, one that is often overlooked is the workspace design. Even in today’s world of hybrid working patterns, staff spend dozens of hours a week in the office, so it’s only

The Importance of Commercial Refurbishments

Your company building has an important part to play in the success of your business. The design and layout of your work premises have a direct effect on employee productivity as well as how customers, partners, and the general public perceive your company

Office Design Trends for 2023

The office environment in 2023 is a different beast entirely to what it was even 5 years ago. Between the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lock downs, workplaces across the country underwent a seismic shift in terms of how they were utilised by sta

Designing a Coworking Office Space

Co-working office spaces, or shared desks are the latest trend. They return the professional appearance of the office, while promoting a more comfortable and relaxed atmosphere that has proven conducive to improved employee morale and productivity.

Things to consider when adding a mezzanine floor to your office

When it comes to commercial office refurbishment, mezzanine floors are a popular choice for many office environments. Mezzanines are partial or balcony floors that often protrude over the floor below, serving as a gallery space. They add extra room to an

What Is Biophilic Office Design?

Biophilia, as it relates to office interior design, is the act of bringing outdoor spaces into the workplace. Commonly misconstrued as “let’s add some potted plants to the office”, biophilic design has much more to offer.