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It’s time to adapt your workspace and design a new, energizing place for employees to work. They’re used to options, and they now know what they like—and what they don’t like.
Hint: it’s not a cookie cutter, drab or dull office setup.
Slack’s Remote Employee Experience Index found that hybrid work is overwhelmingly preferred by employees; 72.2% of those surveyed want the remote-office model to be permanent, which means the workspace itself needs to evolve.
Why does it need to evolve, though? Because remote work is flexible, it’s generally thought to be more comfortable (we are working at home, after all) and the space can be set up exactly how an employee wants it to be.
People want a workspace that’s more like home, as home becomes more like the workspace.
HON’s Room Planner is a user-friendly tool that helps you understand the necessary details (scale, texture, style, etc.), making the furniture-buying process go through without a hitch, whether you’re flying solo or partnering with a HON dealer.
Featured Product: Ignition® 2.0
What It Is: A Tool Designed to Make an Office Furniture Upgrade Easier
“What exactly is the Room Planner?”
You’ve probably had discussions about furniture and design that are conceptual and oftentimes fruitful, but what’s often missing is the ability to visualize what you’re interested in.
But...what if you could see potential furniture options staged in the space you’re working with? The Room Planner makes sense of a critical step in the process: the vision.
“Specifying room arrangements and understanding the customer’s space is an important part of the process,” said Leslie Eichelberger, Director of Marketing for The HON Company. This tool makes doing so much easier (and saves a lot of time).
“This gives the customer the power to configure certain products in a similar setting, and it helps the dealer in quickly identifying what the customer may need or want.”
And once you’ve identified those pieces, you won’t have long to wait. All workstations within our Room Planner are available in our HON NOW program (with more to come this summer!), which means they’ll arrive within 10 days.
Featured Product: Empower®
What It Does: Helps Configure, Plan and Design a Modern and Exciting Workspace
The needs of the workforce are changing, and being prepared for those changes is essential.
Hybrid work—i.e., splitting time between the office and home—is on the rise. The ideal office in 2021 is one that’s flexible, modern and a place where people want to work.
This is where things like collaborative workstations that enable social distancing, or an upgraded look and feel to an existing space, are so important.
With the HON Room Planner, you can start to put those pieces together by virtually setting up a room, getting questions answered and gaining peace of mind as you move through the decision-making process.
How might Empower® customizable workstations look in your space? What about different varieties of customized Ignition® 2.0 chairs?
Seeing is truly believing when it comes to utilizing this tool to give you confidence.
“Having a picture of a room gives customers valuable context; they can see scale, color references—things that otherwise, they would have to guess or try to picture in their minds, which isn’t always easy,” Eichelberger said. “This is a real-life, practical tool that makes things simpler and easier to understand.”
Featured Product: HON Room Planner
How To: Get Your Office Design Project Started With HON’s Room Planner
When we use the word “practical,” we mean it.
The Room Planner is a light design tool, but configuring a room and putting a potential setup together is simple and takes only a few minutes.
We encourage you to take it for a spin! Use the planner to draw out the space, then add windows and doors and anything within the room that might influence the furniture you need. There are also pre-generated room designs available if you don’t have an exact blueprint.
See what we mean? It’s user friendly, and it can be fun, too.
The Room Planner was designed with the small business owner in mind, whether you need a couple of rooms or a whole-office furniture project. And given the demand for a different type of office, this is a big item on the to-do list.
Let’s get started on a better, more productive and energizing workspace that’s modern and inviting. We’re here to help. Visit hon.com or reach out to your HON dealer and tell them you want to try the Room Planner.