How to Simplify Your Life: Office-Decluttering Advice from Design Experts
Tidy space, tidy mind.
With this week being ‘Simplify your life’ week, it makes sense for a desk declutter to be on the cards.
Your place of work can play such a huge role in mental health and wellbeing. In 2020/21, stress, depression and anxiety accounted for 50% of all work-related ill health cases. That is why it’s important now - more than ever - to consider how the design of your office space could be simplified to create a productive and empowering environment.
But a tidy desk is only a minor aspect of simplifying your office space. There are plenty of blogs that will tell you how to declutter, but simplicity is achieved by looking at the bigger picture of office design.
So here are the crucial aspects of space simplicity that should be considered to create a stress-free environment:
Simple Storage Solutions
‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is a great concept. But your hidden resources can quickly become disorganised and chaotic.
Investing in efficient and customised storage can make it simple to keep office essentials accessible and tidy, making the office less stressful in the process. It also helps to opt for a paperless culture where possible, and to regularly curate your email subscriptions to simplify all your mailboxes.
Space for Everyone
An uncomfortable environment can also stem from how we occupy space within the office, so enabling enough room for everyone and their needs can go a long way towards achieving optimum clarity. You don’t necessarily need the biggest floorplan in the world, but identifying and creating a space-efficient office can make for a less-stressed workplace, and a less-stressed you.
Noise Clutter
It can be hard to clear your mind if background noise is overwhelming. Acoustics can have a huge impact on the usability, productivity and inclusivity of your office - especially when considering neurodiversity within the workplace.
Simple design elements such as acoustic baffles, breakout areas, booths, and even flooring can help achieve calm - which is why these elements are always a priority consideration for diligent designers.
Go Back to Basics
In our simplest form, we are humans with fundamental needs. By checking your workplace against the Well Standards, you can ensure that the basic needs of Air, Water, Nourishment, Light, Fitness, Comfort and Mind are met. It’s a simple solution that often bridges the gap between substandard and high quality workplaces, impacting who we are and the way we feel.
Get an Expert Who Knows How to Simplify Your Space For You
Simplicity is a tough skill to master in a world of information overload, so often the best thing to do is to ask an expert. Simplicity is a well-practiced element of design, and Interior Designers are always thinking about how to make lives easier and enable wellbeing through the spaces they create.
Friendly, expert advise can elevate a workplace from being poorly conceived, to one that is attractive, inspiring and comfortable.
What next?
If you’re wanting to simplify your life through improving your space, we can give you some help with your office design or furniture.
Creating simplicity does not require a complicated office overhaul.
Our workplace and furniture experts are able to help you make steps towards space simplicity, so please get in touch via email: sales@absoluteci.co.uk or the form below.
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