Today’s modern offices need to adapt to the modern work style. With workers more involved in collaboration, flex time, and remotely, …offices require designs that are unique to each corporate culture, while still allowing for what the future may bring. In our opinion, the main two design elements to always strive to maximize, is 1) space and 2) light. Each element influences the other in perception and attitude. If a space is designed with optimal working light, it feels more spacious and roomy. If a space is designed well to maximize its space, light flows more easily within it. For our part, glass can be an important part of office design.
Here are 8 ways we’ve seen Bear Glass products used for smart office designs:
1) Cabinetry
Regardless of the business, there’s always paperwork that needs to be stored away. Sales collateral, client files, samples and catalogues are greatly reduced thanks to the online world, but never going away completely. Using backpainted glass or acid etched glass are good ways to keep them hidden from view but still at top of mind.
Glass Cabinet: Paper Work Stored Away
2) Office Dividers
For all the romanticism of open plan work spaces, some people actually work better with some amount of privacy. Glass office dividers offer light transmission and privacy without feeling closed off from the rest of the group.
office-partitions: work better with some amount of privacy
3) Branded Signage
Glass sparkles and dazzles. Nothing is more professional presentation of your brand than in glass.
4) Desktops
Nothing brings an office together more than color, and a desktop surface made of glass is practical and can be that final element that turns a drab workspace into a glad workspace.
desktops: drab workspace into a glad workspace.
5) Markerboards
Magnetized or not, these boards are non staining and even permanent markers can be cleaned off. So your top secret project can stay up for weeks or even months, and come off clean when the project is done.
top your secret project with -Glass Marker Boards
6) Breakrooms
Backsplashes and countertops of glass are easy to keep clean and are non-staining. They’re perfect for the breakrooms where commaraderie and celebrations end up happening, ….and cleanup needs to be simple.
7) Reception Desks
regardless of the public served, the lobby desk needs to be easy to clean and keep clean, while adding a pop of color. Backpainted glass is a fantastic way to accomplish that. In our corporate lobby, for instance, we use “Linen”, …but it can be custom matched to any color specification very easily to be a part of the company brand.
glass reception desk-very easily to be a part of the company brand
8) Conference Tables
The large conference table is still important. Teams will always have to gather and discuss items “en masse” despite the cocooning trend. But over the years, the requirements of these tables have become more like show pieces where future employees are interviewed, where vendors are brought in to discuss issues, where customers are woo-ed. This room featuring a big glass conference table is a real “wow” factor to help with those pitches.
