Are you sitting comfortably? If you are then it is almost certainly the result of painstaking research into posture, and close attention to the detail of surroundings and colour schemes.It is now accepted that the working environment significantly affects mood and performance.
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Work-stresses in the average eight hour day greatly increase with poor surroundings, spinning off on moral and often resulting in poor productivity and high staff turnover.

Conversely, it has been shown that aesthetically-pleasing interiors lend themselves to a relaxed, constructive approach to the daily grind, benefiting both employees and employers.
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Such comparatively new concepts lay behind the 1983 formation of Hartley Partitions, a specialist Sheffield company that has successfully exploited a niche by providing a complete corporate design service, paying critical attention to the smallest points from the shape of the MD's chair to the pictures on the wall.