Find the perfect fit for your employees, your brand, and your future with these three key office furniture principles.

Selecting the right furnishing solutions requires attention to comfort, style, versatility, and durability. But endless options can be overwhelming, and the ideal option for some can’t be the same for everyone—or can it?

Personalization is the answer. At HON, our extensive inventory of desks, seating, and storage is rivaled only by the vast selection of fabric patterns, colors, materials, and finishes available.

These details elevate any selection from functional to individual. Here are three considerations to ensure your next purchase feels like it was made just for you.

Featured Products: Nucleus® Recharged task chairs, Empower™ workstations and Fuse™ storage

One Size Really Doesn’t Fit All, but the Right Design Can.

There’s a reason custom-tailored clothing costs more than shopping off the rack. By the time it’s tucked and hemmed, it fits exactly one person well.

Fortunately finding seating with a one-of-a-kind fit isn’t as cumbersome, but it is more complicated because it requires the right design. Most modern vehicles offer extensive options and adjustments— and for good reason. Uncomfortable drivers are distracted drivers, so designing car seats that offer a custom feel is crucial. The same holds true for task seating. If an office chair isn’t supportive, comfortable, and adjustable, productivity and focus will suffer.

Further, repetitive stress and strain from poorly designed seating with limited adjustments can contribute to long-term health consequences. In fact, low back pain accounts for 40% of all workers’ compensation claims in the United States.

As organizations shift toward more collaborative office layouts and workflows, making every chair quickly feel like it was made just for you is more essential than ever. Whether it’s one of our beloved Ignition® or “recharged” Nucleus® task chairs, you’ll find the easy adjustments offer the personal fit employees may have missed working from home.

“The social aspect of work is one of the most important parts of the physical workplace,” explains Grant Christofely, North American Associate Director of Workplace Strategy at M Moser Associates. He believes companies “must move the dial on how much space is dedicated to individual versus collaborative work.”

Featured Products: Nucleus® Recharged task chairs, Coordinate™ workstations, Contain® storage

Build Your Brand with a Workspace That Reflects It.

When we think about brands, logos and colors may be the first elements that come to mind. But these are really just symbolic shorthand for a company’s culture and values.

As much as any product or service, your office is a touchpoint for employee interaction, client engagement, and customer contact. What does your workspace reveal about your principles and priorities?

“You don’t need to have a trendy office—in fact, that’s probably not a proper reflection of your company,” notes entrepreneurship expert and small business consultant Larry Alton. “What you need is an office that properly reflects your values. Embodying these values in such a tangible way will strengthen your external image and solidify your branding.”

One size doesn’t fit all, and neither does one style. HON’s palette of colors, variety of materials, and selection of finishes can capture your culture with thousands of potential combinations. The clean design and sleek streamlining of our Abound® workstations are stunning, but also highly adaptable. Easily arranged in multiple configurations and available with fabric, wood tone, glass, and markerboard panels, the endless options provide a custom solution that can easily evolve over time.

Featured Products: Nucleus® Recharged task chair, and Abound® workstations

Invest in Solutions Built on Legacy and Longevity.

Iconic designs blur the line between classic and contemporary, turning them into something timeless. When styles that are often decades old feel modern, that’s more than nostalgia. Durable designs feature thoughtful utility and equally enduring materials.

Those desks on Mad Men looked so familiar because they were built to last and still meet today’s demands. It’s why they became and remain an office standard. (If you appreciate Don Draper’s style, consider the mid-century simplicity of one of our iconic 38000 Series® steel desks with chrome legs and aluminum handles.)

But they aren’t the only or best option for every environment. HON’s network of dealers assist organizations across every industry to find furnishings that fit their needs, reflect their brand, and adapt over time. There are also HON showrooms in New York, Washington DC, and at our headquarters in Muscatine, Iowa—as well as virtual experiences featuring multiple industry settings.

Our online Product Configurator and Scene Configurator offer another immersive way to see how specific solutions will look in various environments. Need furnishing even faster? You’ll find a curated collection of options at HON NOW, featuring quickship solutions selected from our most popular products—ready to go, and with free shipping.