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Workstations
The floor where most of the workday happens — and where the right system quietly does a hundred things well. Browse everything, or let 30+ years of experience narrow it for you.
Not a catalog — a curated selection. We're ergonomic specialists with 30+ years designing furniture systems. We can supply anything our manufacturers make; these are the ones we specify and stand behind.
What we'd put in the room
The systems we reach for first, across the four types. The note under each is why we specify it.
One of our two flagship panel systems — highly capable, and it builds collaborative pavilions from the same kit of parts.
Incredibly flexible — brings together almost all of our favorite system features in one kit, and builds collaborative pavilions too.
Our go-to sweet spot: a true 3.25″ frame-and-tile with big data capacity, balancing price, acoustics, lead time and easy part replacement.
The most design-refined agile rail — infinitely flexible connection angles (not just 90°/120°), with integrated planters and accessories.
A uniquely beautiful take on agile — no casters, but power & data stay under the platform while the space around and along it reconfigures.
The most design-refined agile rail — infinitely flexible connection angles (not just 90°/120°), with integrated planters and accessories.
A panel-less system that reads like furniture — the warm way to do open plan when you want desking, not cubicles.
Which type of system fits your organization?
There are four ways to build a workstation floor, and each shifts cost, acoustics, flexibility and footprint. Unless you spec furniture for a living, you've probably never seen them laid side by side — so this is the thinking we walk through together. Save the ones that fit to your project board, and reach out when you'd like us to shape a plan around them.
Still the sweet spot for most stations. A structural frame carries power, data and acoustics; acoustic-tackable, glass and laminate surfaces dress it and swap over the years. The most capable connect off-module, stack, and shape pavilions.
Built to move. Power and data ride a beam or rail, so stations reconfigure freely as teams change shape — from tidy runs to a spine that curves to the room.
No panels — a warm, furniture-like kit for open plan. Surfaces, storage and low screens combine à la carte for a light floor that reads like furniture but plans like a system.
A shared spine runs power and data down the middle of back-to-back desks — open, dense, efficient. We lead with height-adjustable (sit-stand as the healthy default).
Who’s going to use the floor?
Some think in paradigms; most think about the teams that will use the floor — and how to make coming in worth it. The best floors zone for how people actually work: places to focus (at a desk, a comfy lounge chair, or a privacy pod to escape to) and places to come together. That balance of focus and collaboration is what makes the office better than home — for people and for the organization. And the unglamorous part matters too: how work flows and gets stored, from paper-heavy teams that still live on files to equipment that has to stay reachable yet out of sight. Tell us who’s sitting here and how they work, and we’ll shape the mix.
Groups that sit in the same seat every day — many, accounting especially, still paper-heavy. Assigned stations tuned for privacy and heads-down work, with the filing paper still demands.
Split between a home office and an unassigned desk. Shared, sit-stand-friendly stations anyone can drop into and make their own for the day.
Work that’s mostly shared — reshaping between heads-down, teamwork and touchdown. Agile, reconfigurable runs that flex with the project.
The ones that need real thought: trading floors feeding banks of monitors on heavy power, and IT teams with gear that must stay reachable yet out of sight.
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What 30+ years of specifying taught us
We lead with height-adjustable.
Across the whole floor, adjustability is the healthier default. By integrating our own Ergo Snob height-adjustable bases when possible, we can build in among the best bases on the market at affordable prices — so it's no longer the premium upsell it once was. Fixed-height stays a budget or limited-use exception, not our starting point.
We design for focus first.
The ability to focus is the single biggest determinant of productivity — and easy collaboration, when it’s needed, is second. The trouble is that most workstation floors are planned for density and sightlines — not for the deep focus real work demands. People also focus differently: some need enclosure and quiet, others a change of posture, a comfy lounge chair, or a privacy pod to slip away to. So we zone a floor to give each person a place they can genuinely concentrate and room to come together — that’s what makes the office beat home, and it’s critical to how an organization performs.
We see above and past the trends.
Workspace design moves like fashion — tall cubicles, then tight benching, now all hot-desking — each certain it's the future. Our job is to specify spaces that look fresh, stay fresh-feeling, and keep working long after the trend fades. It's why we favor systems that evolve rather than date.
Finishes that match.
Within a single manufacturer's line — Artopex, Kimball, AIS, Watson, Narbutas, Tayco — panel, benching, agile and desking share one paint & laminate family, so a mixed floor still reads as one system.
Keep the facility looking fresh.
Whatever the paradigm, we favor systems whose surfaces, tiles and components swap out easily and inexpensively — so we can refresh a worn or dated area over the years, without major disruption or a full re-buy.
We plan what you can’t see.
Here’s what most people have backwards: the furniture dictates the power and data plan, not the other way around. The system you choose decides how many stations a circuit can carry and where the next feed has to drop. That’s exactly why the smartest thing a client or architect can do is bring us in early: so we can design the furniture that works for the organization together, and then engineer the power and data around that furniture — in the right order, so nothing has to be forced or reworked later. We’ve been directing this engineering for decades.
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Frequently asked questions.
About workstations
How do I choose between panel, benching, agile and desking?
How much power and data can a workstation run carry?
Can these systems adjust to sit-stand height?
Can a workstation floor be reconfigured or refreshed later?
Will the different systems match if we mix them on one floor?
Working with Applied Ergonomics
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