Moving to a new office space doesn’t always warrant the need to purchase all new furniture. Yes, a new layout to accommodate an expanding team will certainly mean the existing inventory of your current office furniture is no longer sufficient, but there are always ways to reuse certain pieces by mixing the old and the new.
Evaluating existing inventory and figure out how to incorporate it with new furniture is a blended approach. Many manufacturers have created non-obsolete systems furniture that make this a very achievable tasks. Will the blended approach work for every office in every situation? Unlikely, but with the growing market for refurbished and used office furniture, finding a new end user can be financial beneficial and environmentally friendly.
Find out more by reading, Existing Furniture In New Spaces by Julie Gauthier, IIDA, LEED AP published in the June 2018 issue of Facility Executive.