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Outfitting your office has never been easier. Take a look-see through our Collections, and you’ll find flexible furniture settings that work beautifully whether you’re furnishing an office for one, two, or even more.

Choose desks with storage. Right-sized conference tables and chairs. Or comfy places for people to stop by for a quick chat. We’ve pulled it all together so you can have the perfect office in no time flat. See what a difference the right furniture can make.

See our collections of Workstations, Informal Meeting Space and Conference Settings.

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Working on new business cards opens up a whole can of worms. What stays? What’s going to be left off? What’s it going to look like? So many decisions – and with our business cards lasting an average of four years, it’s almost like you’ve got to grab a Flying Delorean to figure out what’ll be the norm that far in the future.

There’s a lot of cool examples for personal trainers , Google Searches , web developers , and even divorce lawyers, but what’s going to get us where we need to be? We know for sure that it isn’t going to be like this guy.

(Side Note: Isn’t it funny to think that when we were last doing this, the iPhone was just a brand new (and way expensive) toy, the new Office was just a twinkle in Microsoft’s eye, and Facebook was still only for kids in college?)
Here’s what we’re thinking:

1. No more fax – See ya, fax machine! This time around, we’re omitting the office fax number. To be honest, we barely use it. Our printer covers for it, and now, if we ever get one, it’s directly converted to a PDF and pushed to our controller. We don’t even hear the noise any more.

2. Lifestream URL – You know how people have lots of different social media accounts on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Yelp? Well, a lifestream is an application or plugin that brings them all together. That way, people can go to one place to see all the activity you’ve been up to on the web. If you’re an employee of a bigger organization, you’d be able to choose what accounts you want to broadcast (like tweets or reviews on Steelcase Store), and turn off those that you might not want to.

Currently, creating one needs to be customized by a web developer, but we think that it’ll be user-friendly to start up soon enough. We’re planning on setting one up for each member of our team.

3. QR (quick response) Tags – You’ve probably seen these around before. They kind of look like a small, square barcode, but not quite. They do a pretty great job of transmitting information with minimal user effort. When you take a photo of one on smartphones with a QR Reader – the barcode tells your phone to do something, whether that’s store a name and phone number in your contacts, or take your phone’s web browser to a certain site. It’s really cool technology that’s much more popular in Korea and Japan right now, but should be catching on here soon (especially after you see what the growth rate for smartphone owners are!).

For our cards, we’re thinking that it’ll redirect to a special part of the home page that normal web surfers can’t navigate to, with a freebie for getting there. Kind of like a little bonus for being on the cutting edge.

What else did we miss? Should our new business cards fold out into a Leap chair ? You tell us! 2014 will be here before you know it, and we’ve got to make sure that when it comes, we’ve got cards that are looking fresh.

Our office is freezing. At least that’s what Erin says. She’s got a sweater on her chair, a blanket in the desk, and gloves in the drawer. I think she’s nuts. We’ve got missed deadlines, bad communication at times, and sometimes major panic attacks, but honestly, there’s no issue more polarizing here than office temperature. We’d almost be willing to bet a couple of Amia’s that the same battle is happening wherever you are.

Rationalizations run the gamut, too. I’ve heard lots of, “you can always put another layer on, but I can’t take one off” to the classic “I can’t feel my fingers.” But is there any hard evidence to end the cease fire? One that isn’t, “I’m the boss, what I say goes”? We found out, and the results may surprise you:

Warm workers work better.

We had to track back to 2004, but the proof was there. In a study done by Cornell University’s Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory, workers were 10 percent more productive at 77 degrees Farenheit than they were at 68. That averages out to about $2 per worker, per hour. It may not seem like much at first, but in a small business of 10 people, that’s almost $40,000 per year! The big measure, the study said, was typing errors versus typing output. “At 77 degrees…the workers were keyboarding 100% of the time with a 10% error rate, but at 68 degrees…keying rate went down to 54 percent with a 25% error rate.”

With it being Winter here in Michigan, there’s no way that anyone in their right mind would mind a few degree uptick on the thermostat- but when it’s summer, how will that pan out? Could you enjoy a day in the high 70’s, and then go into a workplace that’s in the high 70’s, too (holy bermuda shorts, Batman!)? You’ll have to be the judge for us. Is it always too hot or too cold at your office? Even with the productivity study- would that sway you either way? Why not let us know in the comments! We all know what Erin’ll say.

One of the design goals for Turnstone’s award winning Scoop stool was to avoid competing with the architecture of a space. This can create a problem when you want people to notice changes made to the chair.

Recently, we added two new options to Scoop. Turnstone released new two options; the side chair and the upholstered seat pad.

“With God as my witness, I’ll never go hungry again!”

You know the scene we’re talking about. Gone with the Wind – the end of act one: Scarlett O’Hara, all dirty from the Civil War, her house in shambles, holding some kind of radish thing and yelling out to no one in particular. You know you watched it in 6th grade. All four hours of it. That was resolve. Both you and her. She wasn’t going to go hungry if she had to marry three different dudes for their money (even Rhett Butler ! ::gasp::), and you weren’t going to watch another movie longer than 2:30 for the rest of your life.

That resolve probably wasn’t for New Year’s back then, but man, it was strong. Got us thinking- since when did resolutions get so wussy and predictable? Not only that, but even if they’re just a schmidge too hard, game over by February.

That’s not our style this year. We’re posting our top three 2010 resolutions online so that we’re stuck with them. Saved forever in the pipes of the internet. Bring on the 10’s!

Resolution 1 – We’re going to own our inbox
Email isn’t going to control our lives any more. You know that feeling when a new message pops up? That little red starry thing on Mac Mail? We hate that feeling – it totally screws up our flow! So we aren’t going to do it anymore. The once-a-minute check’s going to get replaced by a strict every thirty minutes only policy. We’re also going to keep things more organized – which starts by making a new folder called 2009, and moving everything old into it. Still searchable, still there, but out of mind and one step closer to that elusive inbox victory.

Resolution 2 – Time to network
Gah! We really don’t like “networking,” at least in the traditional sense of the word. Always makes us think about stuffy people in ties talking about how many people they’re in charge of, or wanting to sell us something (um, another drink this way please.). This year, we’re going to change all that; networking 2.0. If a kid from college wants to meet up and learn about the business, we’ll try to make it happen. If we meet someone interesting on Twitter, we’ll chat them up. If you want to hear about the wonders of the right-hand knob on a Think chair, let’s get coffee.

And our parents told us to be afraid of strangers!

Resolution 3 – We’re getting out of here at 5pm
I don’t think any of us have seen a full episode of Around the Horn since we were in college. That’s a travesty. Come to mention it, nary is a day when we’ve got to worry about parking on the wrong side of the street in the city (which ends at 6pm). We’ve got a problem. Time to start going home on time. Barring the occasional client meeting prep, it should be pretty feasible, too. Usually people don’t get anything done after 5 pm anyway. There’s even science to back it up.

We’re all in this together: why not post your 2010 resolutions in the comments to keep you in check, too? Don’t get too personal on us, though, because if never going hungry’s your one resolution for the year, well frankly, you’re on your own with that one.