Desk Dividers

Desk dividers provide a well needed sense of privacy and defined personal space in a shared, collaborative workplace, which can greatly boost employee productivity and work performance. In this section, we have teed up a comprehensive selection of desk partitions in a wide range of styles and finishes, colors and sizes.

 

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Open plan offices and collaborative work spaces are very popular these days, and in a lot of instances preferred by many companies across the country. But, sometimes, the busy and exhilarating collaborative environment can serve as a distraction. This is why desk screens are an ideal solution to address this issue. If you need to restore the open environment for a meeting or a brainstorming session, then you can just simply remove the office desk dividers in a matter of minutes - et voilà - yours is the most flexible office around.

 

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In today's busy, diverse and multifaceted corporate workplace, workers often find themselves having to quickly and repeatedly shift between focused solo work and team collaboration. In certain work environments, such as the open-plan office and bigger private offices with bench systems, there can be a way to efficiently combine the best of both worlds. An office desk privacy panel can allow workers to personalize their own private work spaces, without having to be completely cut off and isolated from their neighbors. Desk screens can be easily installed in the way that is called for by the type of work that has to be done, and just as easily removed to allow for a fuller collaboration.

 

Desk partitions have a number of useful benefits, and are a smart and cost-effective solution for creating an instant work boundary and privacy. In this article, we want to examine the advantages of these office furniture items and to look at the main types you can choose from.

 

First off, desk screens allow for having a defined, dedicated work space. In most open-plan offices workers are setup in bench systems, facing each other directly, which can at times be distracting and detrimental to work productivity. By providing workers with a sense of separation and autonomy, without isolating them from the rest of the office – co-workers and management – employees are given the sense of ownership and greater responsibility over their work space, which in turn can boost productivity and help improve overall work results. Partitioning a shared desk space in this way can help maintain or improve tidiness and enhanced organization, as well as to prevent scattering and an eventual loss of documents, notes and different office or personal items, as it is generally much easier to keep track of everything that's within a visually defined area. Enclosing your own work area can also give you an opportunity to make it fell more personal, by adding a touch of your personality and individuality to it, which is proven to improve the overall well-being of individuals. By providing employees with the chance of personalizing their work spaces, you can raise their happiness and productivity and help them feel more valued.

 

Apart from bringing more privacy and a sense of defined space, free standing office partitions can add to the specific branding and design of your office interior. Since privacy desk dividers are available in a wide array of styles, shapes, sizes, colors and materials, rounding up the branding with their help is easier than ever. You can liven up the workplace, or use neutral-looking desk partitions to bring more balance to an already colorful environment – the possibilities are almost countless. And you can have you company's logo, or other signage, applied to screens to extend the visual identity of your brand or to help with the organization of specific services and dedicated work areas in your office.

 

Privacy is often needed and appreciated, but in some cases a need calls for information security and protection of sensitive work elements. In large, open-plan office spaces, where everyone sees everyone's computer screens, files and notes, protecting sensitive information can be a real challenge. Same goes for private phone calls or reducing noise pollution. Strategically placed office privacy panels are a good way to hide computer screens or other visually accessible information from the prying eyes of colleagues and visitors, which can be really useful for departments like accounting or HR.

 

Privacy, security and a solution for breaking up space where this is needed are perhaps the most noticeable benefits of cubicle wall extenders. It's a good way for defining different departments, within an open-plan office, the work of which requires more visual privacy and noise reduction, and which can benefit from a good level of separation and still keep feeling a part of the office, allowing easy impromptu collaborations.

 

One other practical side of desk screens is their storage and organization capabilities. Some desk dividers can hold and store useful office accessories like monitor arms, lamps, trays, shelves, pen holders and more. There are also pinnable screens that provide workers with an additional board for organizing memos, notes, calendars or personal stuff like family photos etc.

 

Now, on the psychological side of things, which is something tightly bound to work performance and long-term professional and personal impacts, several studies have found a regular correlation between the environmental noise, interruptions and distractions that come naturally with working in an open-office layout, on one hand, and higher levels of stress and lower levels of concentration and motivation, on the other hand, which leads to suffering from higher levels of emotional exhaustion and often results in employees taking more sick leave.

 

Psychologists assume that, in such conditions when employees lack privacy at work, their minds and bodies enter a heightened mode that requires them to spend more physical and mental resources in order to cope and overcome distractions, which include not only background noise, visual and physical interruptions but also the stress of feeling as though being under observation by co-workers and supervisors all the time.

 

“When people experience their work environment to be low on privacy, it enhances the pressure on them to divide their mental attention between pursuing work assignments and handling the distractions, interference, and feelings of being monitored that are associated with low experience of privacy.” 

The authors of the study wrote in the Journal of Environmental Psychology.

 

The researchers suggested that workers might turn this tendency around and create a buffer against the negative effect of the lack of privacy by creating a defined, dedicated work area with the help of desk privacy panels, and personalizing their work space by bringing in personal items and maintain a sense of control and ownership over their space. The researchers write on:

 

“Creating a place of one’s own in an otherwise public work space environment should further contribute to individuals’ positive cognitive and affective states, resulting in enhanced mental resources, enabling better coping with the potentially debilitating interferences associated with low privacy.”

 

So, you see, all this would suggest that both employer and employees can benefit from enhanced privacy, strategically and smartly used to help maintain emotional and physical energy in the face of the stresses that arise from their work and the distractions of a low-privacy open-office environment.

 

Whether you're looking for cubicle wall extenders or other types of privacy panels for your busy office, everyone in your office will enjoy the benefits that come with their practical use, and overall productivity and well-being will skyrocket as work goes more private and focused, and smiles on your office people's faces go more apparent and shared. Now, scroll back up and shop away! Whatever your particular desk partitioning needs and requirements may be, we're most likely to provide it to you at a competitive cost.