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Office desks ‘dirtier than toilets’

By Paperstone on 5 April 2007 in Office Furniture with 0 Comments

Office desks can be up to 400 times dirtier than the average toilet seat, according to recent research. Even stranger still, the amount of bacteria found on the average woman’s desk was found to be up to three or four times greater than the average man. Professor Charles Gerba from the University of Arizona, who […]

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Bizarre office requests… from bomb shelters to boozer bans

By Paperstone on 28 March 2007 in Office Furniture with 0 Comments

Businesses aiming to find the right office space usually ask the obvious questions and apply similar criteria: is the location right? Is it big enough? Does it include diamond studded toilet seats? UK online office space provider, officebroker.com, has released details of some of the more bizarre requests it has received from clients looking for […]

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Owls to dictate office environment

By Paperstone on 2 March 2007 in Office Furniture with 0 Comments

National Trust wardens in north Wales are to get some bizarre new colleagues in the form of a parliament of owls, it has been revealed. New office space for National Trust officials was to be built at a site in Cwrt, Gwynedd, but renovation work on the building has discovered that the owls are using […]

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Office furniture sets the world on fire

By Paperstone on 1 March 2007 in Office Furniture with 0 Comments

The story of a solitary torched office chair has caused national intrigue and an international campaign to find the owner. Last Friday, the Westmorland Gazette published a short article on its website detailing how fire crews and the police had been called to a small blaze on a green in Kendal, which later transpired to […]

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Office furniture factory to create jobs

By Paperstone on 28 February 2007 in Office Furniture with 0 Comments

A former office furniture outlet is to be used to create hundreds of jobs in Suffolk, it has been revealed. Property investment company Mission Capital has struck a deal with CBRE Investors to buy four plots of land for a total of £36 million. Included in the four is a 6.5 acre empty Workspace Office […]

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Cubicles on the way out

By Paperstone on 15 February 2007 in Office Furniture with 0 Comments

Office cubicles could be a thing of the past if design trends continue, according to business analyst Victoria Erhart. Businesses are now looking to cut their expenses, with office space being cut down in order to decrease rental coasts. However, Ms Erhart has said that this means office space is at a premium and designing […]

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Office furniture ‘given priority over homes’

By Paperstone on 2 February 2007 in Office Furniture with 0 Comments

A housing association in the north east has come under fire for "needlessly" spending money on moving offices and investing in new office furniture. East Durham Homes (EDH) has been lambasted by local politicians following revelations in the Hartlepool Mail that it spent £155,000 moving staff from one floor to another. This compounded earlier news […]

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‘Soft offices’ more popular with employees

By Paperstone on 30 January 2007 in Office Furniture with 0 Comments

Employees are increasingly looking for a "soft environment" in the workplace, office equipment manufacturers have claimed. Michael Dunlap, an office furniture consultant, claims to have noticed that many workplaces are changing to meet the needs of 21st century employees. He claims that offices are no longer daunting environments with individual cubicles designed to keep employees […]

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Sitting up straight ‘is not good for you’

By Paperstone on 30 November 2006 in Office Furniture with 0 Comments

Office furniture designers may have to go back to the drawing board to create the perfect sitting position after a new study revealed the best way to work. Researchers at the Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen have discovered that sitting up straight may not be the best position for the human spine and have instead recommended […]

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