Profile: Lovers atWork…Changing Directions

By Susan Regier

For years, computerized workstations have forced office workers to face a wall or corner. But with the latest innovation from atWork Office Furniture, we’ll see dramatic changes in the way people conduct business. “Forward-facing” has taken on a whole new meaning when it comes to working people in office environments.

Belair Office Products, an affiliated company of atWork Office Furniture, has designed and built the new forward-facing Phoenix Collection – a commercial quality line that focuses on facing computer users toward guests. Panels and desk tops are constructed of durable one inch thick melamine in various colours and come with a ten year warranty.

Over the past decades, time spent working on computers has substantially increased, but the computer’s location on desks has relatively stayed the same – on the back or to the side. Now days of facing back walls are gone as face-to-face first impressions can again take priority. Just as technology rapidly advances to meet demanding needs, this new style office furniture has been adapted to accommodate those dramatic changes.

“People are absolutely the main thing. Facing an office worker away from coworkers and guests while working on a computer screen destroys the first impression of a welcome. Others just become a bother. This is totally wrong and we want to change that,” said Rodney Lover, Director of Sales for London’s Lovers atWork store. “Our furniture is a solution that even Feng Shui supports.”

Many office designers today use the ancient Chinese art and science of Feng Shui when creating functional office spaces. This includes making sure the worker’s back is toward a corner or wall – never toward a door. Symbolically, business comes through the door, so you should never turn your back on it, and this includes co-workers as well as clients.

For more than twenty years, the atWork Office Furniture group, which includes seven locations throughout Ontario, has offered a complete line of new and used office furniture and accessories. Each location is independently owned and well established in their communities. atWork combines the names people trust with the power of a chain. Find them at www.atwork.ca.

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Susan Regier is the publisher/editor of Networking Today and owner of Vantage One Writing, a professional writing service for businesses. (519) 471-8726 E-mail: susan@vantageone.ca Web site: http://www.vantageone.ca/

Published in Networking Today, October 2006.