Buying Conference Room Tables - What To Look For

Your conference table is one of the most important pieces of office furniture you will ever buy. Studies indicate that States that approximately 11,000,000 meetings occur each day in the United States.  Business analysts estimate that the average professional attends over 60 meetings every month.  Most experts also concur that employees lose the equivalent of four 8-hour days each month on meetings that are poorly planned in poorly designed spaces.

Proper clearance space will reduce the downtime that results from poorly designed meeting rooms.By clearance space, we mean that everyone in your meeting has sufficient room to comfortably move around the conference table from either a standing or seated position.   These basic movements allow office space planners to determine specific measurements for various dimensions of clearance space that must exist around every conference table.  The following dimensions represent basic guidelines that most space planners follow when designing a meeting room.