At this point in time, any piece of furniture for the office that does not take into account placement of a computer and other high tech communications devices is not even worth considering for purchase. Today’s office environment revolves around transfer of information both within a closed network and through the global Internet. For this reason, office computer furniture is the fastest growing segment of the entire furniture industry.
For the year 2009, office desks, chairs and printer stands will have shown a 27% increase. And this is in a recessionary business environment. Take into account that even design changes based upon ergonomics rely upon keyboard and monitor placement as the impetus for their design development. Office computer furniture must be built to allow horizontal line of sight to the computer monitor yet still allow both ease of reach to the keyboard and the ability for the operator to swivel between their main work area and secondary work placement on desk extensions. More simply put, office furniture is now designed so that we can see what we are looking at and reach what we are reaching for. Don’t consider purchasing an obsolete design style for office furniture, when a huge percentage of your workload is done on a PC.