When you have a lot of people coming in and out of the office each day, there can be a lot of busy foot traffic that causes some areas of the building to become congested. Although office traffic is normal, it can affect your team’s productivity and also make it challenging to travel to different parts of the building, especially if there’s an emergency. Here are a few effective ways to better handle office traffic to ensure you and anyone else can get where they need to be as quickly as possible.
Create a Clear Pathway
Creating a clear and somewhat marked pathway can make it easier to guide your visitors as well as employees and direct them through different areas of the building. This can keep traffic in one spot and prevent people from walking through and disrupting areas where employees are working or meeting. The pathway can be marked in a few different ways. Either with signs that state clearly where to go or where to stay away, or more subtly such as through the colors of the carpet. You can have a clear line creating a path that differs from the rest of the carpet in your office. This can even work no matter if it’s tiles, carpet, or paneling in your office so long as you make the path stand out from the rest of the floor.
Creating additional pathways to be used to decongest more high-traffic areas or in case of emergency can also make it easier to make people to disperse instead of traveling in large groups.
Install New Doors
Installing new doors can improve the flow of traffic and allow more people to access different entryways without a line or large group forming. More companies are installing automatic door systems, which automatically open and close for added convenience. This saves time while moving through different parts of the building and have a high level of reliability with its operation. The excellent structural integrity of automatic door systems allows them to last for several decades.
Remove Hazards
Remove any hazards that are present that could obstruct the pathway where your visitors and employees walk, which can put their safety at risk and also cause congestion in different areas of the building. Check for things like rugs that could easily be pulled out of place since these are common tripping hazards. It’s also important to remove any walls or obstructions that affect the flow of traffic. The paths should be glare-free and illuminated for added visibility and safety.
With minor updates and changes made in the building, you can improve office traffic and allow it to flow better to create a more functional and accommodating environment. Automatic door systems will prove to become an effective feature to integrate that your visitors and employees will quickly become accustomed to utilizing during the day.
