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Different types of Office Furniture

Executive Furniture

High officials have classic taste for furniture. Therefore, executive furniture is purchased according to their tastes. This is mainly to impress the visitors, and it should add to the prestige of the person using it and the prestige of the firm. Different executives will prefer different types of furniture to suit their job and status.

Desks

The desk is the work-bench of the office worker. Most of office work is handled on a desk, over a desk, through a desk or across a desk. The primary function of any desk is to provide a suitable surface for writing, checking, sorting, examining and conferring; for these purposes a table top is just as good as a desk top; tables also have other advantages over desks. The desks selected for office should multi-purpose in use.

Executive Desk

These are designed to suit individual tastes and quite often they are designed as a show piece of an organization. Their purpose is also to impress visitors with the prestige and importance of persons using them. Executive desks are generally double pedestal, available everywhere in UK office furniture market. Sharp edges and corners are eliminated. Table top is covered with a sheet of glass. Some executives use full top glass while others prefer to cover writing area only.

Table

Tables are ordinarily needed for sorting of mail, housing of files, file-tray, holding meetings etc. Most of the tables follow the conventional dimensions for their sizes.

Chairs

Chairs are perhaps the most important item of furniture from the point of view of the worker since he sits in them all through the day in office. Comfortable sitting in the office not only reduces fatigue but also maintains the health of the employee.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Manav Pietro .