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Working from home is the new normal, and reliable home office furniture is key to ensuring you can do your best work, productively and comfortably is key to being successful.

At Re:Work we are ideally placed to help your business adapt your office for social distancing and enable you to eliminate any worry of COVID-19 in the office.

I’ve been spending time lately developing the values of our company, with the usual asking people and customers what words they think sum us up, gathering my own thoughts together, and really importantly asking the team at Re:Work.

One of my questions was, should I (as captain of the vessel), set the values of the company, or should we go with what our brand means to other people? Why even have values at all?

The environment is having a vast positive effect from recycling unwanted furniture. By reusing unwanted furnishings, we are avoiding quality goods from being abandoned on landfills, creating difficulties for the environment.

Following the most recent popularity tends, its appears to be that sit, stand desks are becoming the new fashionable favourite.

So… what is a sit, stand desk? A sit, stand desk is a height adjustable desk which allows you to either sit or stand comfortably whilst working. Even though the research is still in progress, it does give the impression that using a sit, stand desk has an impact on heath and can increase productivity. – GREAT!

When looking for the perfect chair, we often hear the term ergonomic, but what does it mean? By definition, it means ‘designed for efficiency and comfort in the working environment’.

So let’s explore this further...

Sustainability is something everyone has been talking about recently, and here at Re:Work we’ve always taken it seriously, as it forms one of our objectives as a Social Enterprise.

For the last 13 years, we have been diverting office furniture from going into a skip or landfill by re-using as much as we can and re-selling it to a wide range of businesses and organisations around the North of England.

The future of office design was heading from cubicles to open-plan layouts as well the ability to reconfigure the space. Both open plan environments and reconfigurable furniture are in trend to encourage collaboration between co-workers. Research shows actual evidence that the physical environment influences interactions between people. It can interfere with or encourage the frequency and quality of social interactions. Taking all these elements into account it seems like common sense to move into the design direction we were headed before 2020 entered the game…