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Your Office Chairs Matter
When someone walks into your workplace, what do they see? More importantly, when a potential hire walks into your startup, what do you want them to see?
A Posh, well-designed office?
A maze of offices where everyone is sitting separately?
An obscure collection of used office furniture?
Gulp…Cubicles?
When thinking about culture and values, the space that you design says a lot about the corporate culture and sets a tone. In my last startup, I witness all the above situations and I saw the culture change and how it affected the business from the team to the P&L.
We started our last business TrackR in a garage with a bunch of desks and chairs that were left on the street in Isla Vista. This is how most startups begin is trying to find the cheapest office furniture you can get because you have no money and would never think of wasting cash on swanky office furniture (the exception here is if you have clients visiting your space so you figure out incentive ways to look better than the story your balance sheet tells). While the cost savings from an overall perspective is insignificant, the action sparks a myth…
