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Office design is starting to incorporate a very unexpected area of the home: the kitchen.
We’ve all been there and done it. Who hasn’t eaten lunch at their office desk? In fact, 27% of us take advantage of our own personal office cubicle café for breakfast and 62% for lunch. Let’s go ahead and admit to the rest of our deep, dark snacking secret: we all use storage space in our office desk as a makeshift pantry. Talk about ergo-nom-nom-nom-ics!
It has become quite evident that office design is now being used in ways we didn’t necessarily predict. For example, microwaves are now being specifically designed to fit our office furniture. Now, you don’t even have to leave your office chairs to heat up your food and chow down!
As a Cincinnati office furniture store, we love hearing that people are making themselves feel at home snuggled between their office partitions, but there’s something that many aren’t aware of. A typical restaurant table houses 700 bacteria per square inch, a number that is considered unsanitary. An office desk, on the other hand, contains around 10 million bacteria per square inch! Brace yourselves, things only get dirtier. Not to bring up a messy topic from one of our last posts, but you probably never imagined your keyboard has this many germs on it.
We don’t intend to scare you away from your daily eating rituals, we just want to ask one simple question. When was the last time you wiped down your desktop, keyboard and phone? You can avoid these germs and bacteria by disinfecting your space whenever you get the chance, especially before eating.
And if you ever do get yourself a built in microwave, please remember one thing: Don’t break the unspoken “stink” rule by heating up your leftover Indian takeout, broccoli, or (god forbid) fish sandwich. Then things in your office will really get messy!
