Designers and manufacturers of office furniture need to stay abreast of any changes in the market, particularly during an economic downturn. At the moment, small is in.

Increasingly, small businesses are looking to occupy less office space as a way of saving on lease payments. This is not only happening in the business world, an increasing number of older people are now downsizing their homes once the kids have left the nest. Both of these occurrences have spurred the furniture industry to find new ways of saving space.

Current trends have been towards reducing the amount of clutter in the office and in the home and this has also had an effect on reducing the size of home and office furnishings. If you search the internet on a regular basis you will find that contemporary office furniture is very often a slimmed down version of what has been popular in the past. Good storage is also becoming an important part of the modern office scene as clever shelving and fewer, but larger filing cabinets means getting rid of the piles of paper and box files that populate many offices. Instead of ‘Honey I Shrunk the Kids’ the cry could be ‘Boss, You Shrunk the Office.’