Due to today’s modern technology, enormous amounts of people are spending most of their working hours behind a desk in an uncomfortable office chair. Because of this deskbound lifestyle, more and more individuals are becoming overweight, out of shape, and developing other health problems.

Although a sedentary lifestyle causes health problems in itself, an uncomfortable office chair causes a completely new arena of problems. Hours upon hours in a chair without ergonomic features brings about back problems, neck pains and just overall body aches from bad posture.

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The rise in mobile communications and the 21st century paradigm of being able to do ‘everything on one computer’ means that less people are working in paper cluttered offices - bureaucracy is becoming a thing of the past. In today’s organisations employees rarely require more than an office desk, an office chair and a computer to do their work.

In a recent article in the Independent , journalist Roger Trapp makes some interesting insights regarding how advancements in ICT are revolutionising today’s office designs and office furniture choices. The result of this trend being that work spaces are becoming increasingly minimalistic and open plan. more…

Fans of the TV hit series 24 may have been disappointed at the beginning of the new series as they find that their hero Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland, is now a retired devoted grandfather. But as always, it doesn’t take long before he is back in the action to do what he does best - fight assassins and terrorists. In season eight we also find that the New York branch of CTU (the Counter Terrorist Unit) has been re-formed and looking extremely shiny, clean and futuristic.

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That’s right according to a recent article in the Daily Mail when it comes to decorating; forget black, white and pastels. When you think office furniture – think stylish silver, metal, slate and stone, grey is this season’s hottest colour.

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