Types of Office Workstation Design and Types

With a proper design and style to the workstations it lets out a company to be more efficient in using its work place area which even helps to increase productivity and also cut down the costs by placing more number of people in a smaller area. In addition workstation also provides certain amount of privacy along with certain accessibility and sharing of information’s between employees.

Benefits of workstations

The workstation benefits are countless and some of important benefits are highlighted below.

• Office workstations are more functional and stylish.
• Ergonomic workstation assets helps us to avoid repetitive strain injuries.
• Well designed workstation layout along with its storage space, colour and flexibility helps to increase overall productivity of a business.
• Modular and ergonomic workstation helps us to accommodate various sets of working needs like shelves, drawers and many more.
• They are easy to maintain and environmental friendly with abrasive resistant and durability.

Different types of workstations

There are different categories and ranges of workstations and with wide range and selection of modular workstation it helps us to get a new rich look. Moreover the nature of work is even reflected by its desk and workstation can be selected based on the type of business, office interior, budget from various range of colours and design to suit their creativity. Different workstation types are given below.

• Linear workstation or Straight workstation

Also called by its other names like straight workstation or row type workstation. This type of workstation can be in different sizes and normally will have partition in front of the desk with certain feet of height. The partition provided in respective sections have option for white board and fabric board for pinning up various documents. The surface has also different coating of materials and these types of workstations can be noticed in call centers, BPO and KPO industry.

• Cluster workstations or L shaped workstations

As the name indicates these workstations are in a group or bunch of workstations of more in number. These workstations helps out in easy accessiblity between different employees and probably used by managers, team leaders and it can be noticed in widely IT industry.

• Single Seater workstations

This is specially designed for an operation of an individual and these type of stations doesn’t have any link or connectivity to its partner.

• Single Pentagon workstation

This type of workstations are covered by two sides with an opening at one end and suits more for an individual operations and are more privacy in nature.