How To Prepare Your Workspace For Your New Team. Are you about to build a team for your business?
It’s a notable highlight of every business owner’s life.
If you’ve been working solo up until this point, but the time has come that both your workload and resources can stretch to more than one set of eyes, it’s clear your business is growing steadily.
And that’s an exciting thing!
But now you need to focus on ensuring you build the best team for the job, and that you prepare your workspace for this team to use.
A lot of employee wellbeing is tied up in the space they use to work, so you want to be sure you get this right from day one.
Create Both Private and Co Working Areas
Let your employees work both socially and on their own by encouraging both styles within your workspace.
If it’s easy to collaborate, as there’s a space for that, your team is going to find it a lot easier to get on with each other.
And on the other hand, if there’s space for someone to break away from the rest and work in the peace and quiet, they’re likely to find the working day a lot less draining.
Ensure There’s Enough Personal Space
On top of the above, you’ll want your workspace to be sectioned off in such a way that allows each employee to have their own area, or ‘personal space’.
This is where they can settle into work each and every day, and come to think of it as a place that belongs to them.
Back in the day this was most often achieved by setting up cubicles on the office floor, but the world of office redesign has come a long way in the past 20 years or so.
You can now allow for this in an open plan space through the use of careful design, clever decor, and a well organised layout.
No need for bulky screens that just get in the way of the traffic flow here!
Outfit the Break Room Properly
The break room in any and all workplaces should be designed with your employees in mind – not just outfitted with the barest furniture and a half working fridge!
It should be a room you put a lot of thought into, as its function is one of the most important things in the entirety of your premises.
It’s meant to help employees refresh and reload for the second half of their working day, and that won’t be possible if it’s an uncomfortable space with very little to offer.
It needs to be usable, clean, and well furnished, and have amenities like a microwave, a coffee machine, or even a vending machine.
If you’re bringing a new team on board within your business, get these wellness needs ticked off ahead of time.
They’ll help you to ensure your workspace is ready for more people with various needs, and in turn, that’ll make you a very active and attentive boss.
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