Metrix Interiors

Office design
There's much more to designing an office than putting things in the right places. The essence of an office is the people that work in it and the work that they do. A call centre is not the same as an advertising agency. A law firm is not the same as a tour operator. An accounts office is not the same as an investment bank.

Effectively, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to office design. That's why, more important than physical information – floor areas, numbers of staff, etc. – is the ambience question. What effect do you want your office to achieve on your own staff and on outsiders. Because the right design creates the right atmosphere, which has a huge influence on the success of your organisation.

At Metrix Interiors, the question of ambience is paramount, and then we add on the importance of branding. Almost every organisation nowadays has a brand, and associated with that are brand values. How will your office reflect those brand values? It should reinforce them, not conflict with them. And that's not just a question of using the right colours, or making sure the logo is visible. It a far deeper question, one we're used to addressing.