Once upon a time, offices featured cubicles or partitioned workspaces that hindered
communication, and enforced the idea that workers were merely cogs in a machine. It’s rare that
you see cubicles in corporate offices nowadays; they’re considered soulless and impersonal.
Open-offices have become the norm for many – and there are plenty of good reasons for this.
Barriers between managers and their subordinates are dismantled in an open-plan office
environment, making individuals feel like they’re part of a team. This set up encourages
collaboration and builds relationships between a workforce. Open-plan offices are also easier
for businesses to set up; they maximise on space and reduce running costs too.
But whilst there are lots of benefits to working in an open-plan office, there can be more
distractions in a communal setting. According to architectural design firm Gensler, ‘workplace
strategies that sacrifice individual focus in pursuit of collaboration will result in decreased
effectiveness for both.’ A frustrated employer who’s unable to focus on their individual tasks
won’t succeed at working collaboratively either.
Today we are going to be taking a close look at one of the most iconic office chairs of the past
three decades, the Vogue Chair by Ensemble. I have seen the chair at trade shows and had the
chance
to sit in it for very short stints at a time. Recently, we brought in a bunch of different
ergonomic
chairs to make our list of the best office chairs for 2021. One of those was the Vogue Chair.
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