You are looking for a designer desk to equip your company and satisfy your teams, or simply for yourself, to work efficiently from home. To help you choose the right designer desk, we have identified here all the important questions you should ask yourself.
Why Choose a Designer Desk?
Having a designer desk offers numerous advantages and will notably have an impact on your employees’ motivation, or on your own motivation if you primarily work remotely from home.
A Designer Desk to Motivate Your Employees
We spend a lot of time at work, most of our days. We spend much more time in the company we work for than at home. It is nearly 7 hours, or even more depending on positions, your status, and the activity as well, that we spend each day in the professional environment. Therefore, feeling good, comfortable, and ultimately almost at home, is essential for well-being.
If there is one thing your employees will notice, it is how they are valued by you and the company in general. Having a beautiful desk, ideally a designer desk, having all the necessary tools to perform their duties and tasks are thus determining factors in their motivation. Think about yourself: would you be happy to work every day on an old, damaged desk? Don’t you think that a designer desk, with well-drawn curves, pleasant to the touch, with enough space to place all your belongings, a minimum number of storage compartments would allow you to be more efficient in your work? Well, your employees feel exactly the same way. The more they are valued, particularly through a designer desk, the greater their commitment to their tasks will be.
A Sense of Belonging Through the Designer Desk
The choices you make regarding workspace layout in your company, and decoration as well, will inevitably send messages about how you perceive your own company. And therefore how you perceive your employees. Having perfectly homogeneous office furniture, in a certain tone, with a certain quality, will inevitably send signals about how you envision work being done, but also about the type of culture you wish to develop in your company. By providing each employee with a designer desk, you will demonstrate that excellence, quality, and precision are essential values you wish to promote in your company. And unconsciously, your employees will apply these same values to themselves during their work time.
A Designer Desk to Make Remote Work More Pleasant
With the health situation we have been experiencing for several months now, remote work has become established in society. Sometimes by choice and desire of employees who have seen numerous advantages (notably that of no longer wasting time commuting between home and work), sometimes by obligation and imposed. It is true that many people prefer to maintain a distinction between personal space and the professional sphere. Therefore, having a designer desk if you are required to work remotely can have numerous advantages:
- on one hand, depending on the size of your apartment or house, it is often difficult to set up your desk in a dedicated room. Lack of space, not necessarily wanting to see your work desk in your bedroom, the constraints can be numerous and very frequently, the home office ends up in the main living space, the living room. Having a designer desk will bring an important decorative touch, or even a major one, to the room chosen to install it, and thus transform something negative into positive.
- on the other hand, working on a designer desk will increase your motivation. Imagine if you had to work every day you are working remotely on your dining table. It is not necessarily pleasant.
- finally, the designer desk will allow you to store your work accessories (notebook, pencils, documents) and thus prevent them from constantly lying around in your room. To do this, you could also use the Vitra Toolbox to store and organize your work accessories.
How to Choose Your Designer Desk?
To choose your designer desk properly, it will be necessary to consider different elements:
Choose the Designer Desk According to Your Style!
You should not choose just any designer desk; it must obviously:
- fit into your interior design: your designer desk must follow the same style as your other designer furniture, especially if it is in the same room.
- fit into the environment you wish to create for your company, your brand. If you receive clients, suppliers, service providers, etc., your furniture and particularly the style of designer desks you have chosen will give them information about what you represent.
Therefore, pay close attention to the type of designer desk, the chosen material (wooden or glass top for example like the Cavour designer desk by Zanotta, its colors, its shapes, its lines, etc.
Choose the Designer Desk According to Your Needs!
Before choosing a designer desk, you must necessarily ask yourself the question of its use. For example, the first question to ask is whether you will spend your days working on it or on the contrary if the work time will be relatively minimal. Thus, if you plan to spend long days, it will be important to choose a desk with a large top to be able to place all your work belongings. The question of your work tools is also important: are you used to working on a laptop or on the contrary on a desktop computer? Or both together? And if so, how many screens will you use?
If you will use your desk occasionally, you can then choose a small designer desk to place your laptop on. This small designer desk could also be foldable to take up as little space as possible.
The Importance of Storage for Your Designer Desk
This storage point is crucial regardless of the use you will have for your desk. Thus:
- if you have very little storage in the room where you will install your desk, it will be necessary to provide a designer desk with at least one drawer to store the essentials: pencils, some work papers, or even your laptop.
- if you plan to install your desk in a room that already has storage spaces still available, a simple designer desk without storage space can then be perfectly suitable.
- however, if you plan to purchase a designer desk for your employees, then a large storage space consisting of several drawers should be preferred. These spaces will be used not only to store professional belongings but also some personal items.
You now have all the elements to choose your designer desk properly. If you need help, our teams are at your disposal and ready to listen to assist you. Being specialists in office design, we have perfect knowledge of designer professional furniture manufacturers, so we will be able to advise you according to your needs and desired style.
