Monday, January 28, 2008

Office wine tasting party

Want to organize a mini party at the office after work? a wine tasting party is always elegant and if organized well in advance it will ensure a pleasant time for all of your colleagues.

What you need though in oreder everything to run smoothly is drinking equipment and an assortment of wines. You don't need to hire a wine expert to take the group to the sanctuary of wine flavours. If any of your colleagues is considered more wine experienced and willing to help ask him or her to lead the group.

You can also prepare some cheese plates using different kind of cheese just to accompany the new flavours of wine. For the wine selection, there is no need of asking everyone to bring a bottle of wine. There are online stores that offer great assortments of wines in good prices delivered straight to your office. You can split the cost and spend a great ''wine'' afternoon at the office.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Vintage style in offices with attitude

A ''new'' trend in decoration and in lifestyle has launched lately that although pre-existing, people seem like just dug it out and brought back in fashion. Vintage art has been always a sophisticated form of art used in decoration and lifestyle or even in way of living and thinking.

What impresses me though about this trend is the wide adoption by people who choose stylish pieces of vintage art to decorate their offices. I have recently happened to drop by an office of a company that was decorated with posters of vintage art hanging on the walls. The overall outcome was really positive as the pieces used had given a sophisticated tone to the office's atmosphere as well as an elegant look to the person working in.

For those who are ignorant of the term, vintage style used to be a trend 25 years ago mainly in garment industry and considered as a reaction to the loss of social values. In other words, there was a strong connection between lifestyle and attitude towards real values.

Overall, vintage art, as said above, comprises a sophisticated form of art that can be expressed in many ways depending on the use you prefer it for. You can find posters and decoration items in specific real or online stores. You don't need to have special decorating skills to give your place an elegant look;just keep it simple.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Flowers improve work performance!

Recent survey has revealed that flowers scent can affect people's mood in a positive way. Considered to be true, people have already started taking advantage of this theory and make use of flowers not just for decoration purposes but as influential factor on people's performance in work.

Most employees regard their working environment as a depressing place to work in. People strongly believe that an impersonal and uncoloured office make those who work in moody and less productive. There are many ways though to improve the bad office image and therefore to amend their mood and performance in terms of productivity.

One of those that is being already applied by many companies is placing bunches of flowers in several points around the offices in work. There are businesses that specialize in office stuff including delivering bunches of flowers to your place of work. A good example of such business is Euroffice company that offers a range of different bunches options categorizing by price, colour, occasion, season and sentiment.

Even if you work at home, Euroffice can always deliver the flowers of your preference to the place of your choice.

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Specializing in Paperwork

How many times did you catch yourself saying ''I would pay to see this paperwork to rights''. Well, if you think you are the only one, you are fooled.

I was searching for random things when I stumbled upon a site that specializes in ''tidying up paperwork''. My first thought was that those people might have foreseen potential profit in activities that are just too boring and time consuming for common people to do and therefore it's very likely to pay for. Apparently, Office Stuff's existence signals that this is the case.

Additionally, the company mainly targets attracting businesses but also provides support for individuals. Their long experience in administration, book keeping and many other ''tidying up'' services in conjunction with the appealing pricing strategy gives a general impression that these people know what they are doing.