If your organization is in need of new workstation furniture, it is likely that you will get multiple bids. Prices can start at $500 for used cubicles, and range anywhere from $1000 to $7500 per station for new panel systems.

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The Source for
Solutions

2. New ways to work, new challenges
• Totally mobile
• computing
• Cloud storage
More mobile workforce estate cost and carbon
• Pressure to reduce real
footprint per employee
• Increasing collaboration both on projects and
documents

3. Major Challenges
• Accommodating multi-generational workstyles
–Millen
•
• Are multi-taskers
nials e-mail or IM to face-to-face
Prefer
• conversation
• Not easily phased to noise or problems
Less prone by back commotion
–Olderother ailments
• and
• Tend to be more linear
generationsin-person conversation
Prefer phone or
•
• Need more focused concentration work areas
More prone to back problems
• Require more light to see

4. Ergonomic Challenge #1
• Ergonomically, laptop computers force bad
posture and should not be used at a desk
all day long.

5. Ergonomic Challenge #2
• Under-desk Storage
– LEED-mandated lower heights have led to
storage
based systems with low
open bookshelves.
are back injuries waiting to happen!
The
se

6. Ergonomic Challenge #3
• Sound in Open Plan cuts both
–
ways
Distracting
to many people
–For newer employees, good way to disseminate
collective knowledge through overheard
conversations
–For managers, good way to catch mistakes
being made

7. Ergonomic Challenge #4
• Light and energy
usage
–As
we age we require
t
geometrically more light
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Light
ing es % f ge ce ing er
Age 20
Age 60

8. Laptop Use Response
• Treat the laptop as a CPU or monitor at most
– Separate keyboard and mouse: Goldtouch Go is
small, light and protected to fit in laptop bag
– Raise monitor height with thin riser

9. Continue to provide adjustability
• At the office, even at unassigned desks,
provide at least some that have keyboard
trays and larger monitors on arms with easy
plug-in for laptop without docking.

10. Sit or Stand
• Give people the opportunity to work standing
up as well as sitting down. Even without a
treadmill, standing can help users lose
substantial weight over the course of a year,
as well as
relieve
back pain.

11. AE Computer Ergonomic Resources
• We work extensively with both Humanscale
•
•
and Workrite, as well as Chief, Innovative,
ISE, ESI and others
We carry our own branded ergonomic
product
as we source directly from CompX, the
largest
OEM manufacturer
We carry our own lines of electric height
adjustable tables, plus SIS, Mayline and
others

12. Sound Attenuation Resources
• Acoustic workstation panels
• Sound masking system: Lencore
Spectra

13. Lighting Resources
• LED Ambient lighting:
– Waldmann moveable ambient lighting with
occupancy sensor and daylight harvesting sensors

14. Lighting Resources
• LED Task Lighting
– Newest under-bin and swing arm options from
Workrite, Humanscale, Waldmann & Luxo

15. Panel and other Modular Systems
Tayco Cosmopolitan combined with
UP

16. Artopex
Air

17. Fluid Concepts

18. Collaborative Video Huddles
• SIMO Corp IMT: Interactive Media
Technology

19. Moveable Walls
• Alur
Glass
•
Starwall

20. Challenge: Seating
• If people are moving around and sitting and
standing, what chairs will fit?
• ANSWE
R:
Simple, flexible and supportive