Your Estimating Environment

摘要

THE WORK ENVIRONMENT can substantially affect productivity, accuracy and health. This includes the size and shape of your office, the furniture arrangement, the chair, the lighting and the technology layout. I have worked in a few different places. Some of them have been very comfortable and productive, and others not so much. Some were outright impossible. The trainee As a trainee estimator, I had a semi-private office. It had three solid wails and a glass wall with a sliding glass door. There was a standard desk on one side, at about 29 inches high, and a plan table on the other side. The plan table was slanted with a height of about 41 inches at the front. I had a regular office chair for the desk and a drafting-height chair for the plan table. This was before personal computers, so computer and monitor placement was not a consideration. I really liked this arrangement because I could stand or sit while working at the plan table. This suited me as a young man, since I didn't like sitting all the time. Looking back, it was a little bit of a pain having to move between the two chairs.