When you first start out in business, you’re likely to operate from home. This is cheaper, easier, and more convenient. However, as your business begins to progress, you’re going to want to look at expanding. This can mean moving into a new commercial office space. Here are a few suggestions for your first office space that you should take into consideration:
Fit Appropriate Signage
As a small business owner, health and safety must be a priority in the workplace. Failing to provide employees and visitors a safe environment can lead to accidents and lawsuits. To prevent this, there are various areas that you need to focus on. A good place to start is by fitting appropriate signage around the office.
If there are potential hazards that can’t be structurally changed, such as low ceilings or beams, you will need to put signs up warning people of their presence. Something as simple as a “mind your head” sign or “mind the step” sign will do. You also need to display fire exit and protocol signs for the public. These help guide people and provide instructions during emergencies.
Take Care of the Basics
Once you have health and safety sorted, you can start dealing with the basics in your office space. This could vary from ensuring that fresh flooring is properly laid, fluorescent light covers are replaced and giving the walls a fresh coat of paint. These steps will ensure that the bare bones of your office space are fresh, clean, and presentable.
Consider Ergonomic Design
Next, you might want to start fitting furniture. This will give you and your staff a space to sit down and work from. Consider ergonomic design when purchasing furniture. This will reduce chances of injury (such as repetitive strain injury) in the workplace and will increase everyone’s comfort. This, in turn, should improve productivity, which will hopefully generate you more profit in the long run.
Invest in Coffee Machines and Water Dispensers
If you want your staff to remain alert and hydrated throughout the day, you might want to invest in the luxury of coffee machines and water dispensers. This will help to perk up employees and ensure they are getting their recommended eight glasses of water a day. Making your workspace a more pleasant place to operate will, again, improve productivity levels.
These are just a few steps that you might want to incorporate into the process of setting up a commercial office space!
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