A COMMITMENT TO SERVICE
At Applied Ergonomics, the answer to almost every request is “yes.” Over the years, as our clients’ needs have grown, so have our service offering. Today, clients and design firms look to us for an extensive range of services associated with developing a new environment ― from redesigning or retrofitting workspaces to follow Covid-19 best practices, to providing great space planning that’s based on real furniture dimensions, to Union and non-Union installations, to decommissioning and sustainably recycling existing product, and much more.
Our goal is to take as much stress off our clients as we can by providing great service that reflects our caring as individuals and our experience of the process. As an online ecommerce site, we stand out from the crowd by offering expert advice for individual chair fitting and home office ergonomic consulting. While our storefront only accepts domestic shipments, we can work with you offline to ship across the globe. And while we have official return policies, we try to follow the Nordstrom return policy to make sure every client is a happy client.
OFFICE REDESIGN
This period with so many working remotely is a great time to redo your offices, whether the goal is to simply update the look or make the workspaces safer to bring your people back into. Our interdisciplinary teams collaborate with both small and large-scale clients to create healthy, beautiful, productive, sustainable, and economical environments. As workspaces reopen over the coming year, it is our belief that many will continue to work remotely, and floorplate density will never go back to pre-pandemic design. So, let’s redesign the space to give people more social distance, with more well-designed collaborative spaces that are still set up to maintain safe interaction. Let’s make it all ergonomic, safe, beautiful and reflective of your organization, inspiring your employees to do their best work.
SPACE PLANNING
While many of our large projects have a top-notch design firm already on board, very few of our mid-sized and smaller projects do. Space planning provided by the building is sufficient to get you to sign the lease but not to optimize the space for your long-term needs. We happen to be great at space planning, and our process makes the difference, starting with double checking the base drawings for accuracy. We push our clients to be intimately involved in thinking about their organization and how the space impacts interaction and productivity. We encourage getting input at the department level, so the workspaces serve the employees doing the jobs. We design from the inside out, based on ergonomic and LEED principles, realistic furniture dimensions and codes. And we review all the power and data plans to ensure that they will work with the furniture.
INTERIOR DESIGN
We love to collaborate with a client’s interior design firm, making our products fit their vision. More often, we serve as the design firm, with the intent to complement the interior architecture. We don’t have a signature look; our goal is to reflect our clients’ corporate culture, enhance their ability to attract both employees and customers, ensure a healthy and productive work environment, and provide flexibility for change and growth. As a full-service contract furniture dealer, we have the ability to design and furnish a diverse range of interiors. Our product and design expertise extends to commercial, residential, hospitality, and healthcare. We are discerning in our product selections and have thoughtfully cultivated relationships with vendor who share our core values. Our design fees are reasonable and can be integrated into the overall project package.
HOME OFFICE SETUPS
Applied Ergonomics is a leader in ergonomic home office design. We do not want to replace your decorator, but we sure do want to help you get the ergonomics of your home office right. Talk to us and let us help you implement the ideal ergonomic design for you, based on your physical needs and taking your existing space into consideration. We can help custom fit you for a height-adjustable desk, desktop sit-stand converter or fixed-height desk, great ergonomic chair or standing support, anti-fatigue mat or balance board, laptop riser and monitor arms, document holders, footrest, task light, chair mat, ergonomic keyboard, and mouse or alternate input device.
VIRTUAL ERGONOMIC CONSULTING
Ergonomics is personal. It is about the impact workspaces and equipment have on the human body. We focus on helping people heal by minimizing negative factors. In these strange times, it’s reassuring to know that Applied Ergonomics has been doing remote consulting for home-based office workers for over a decade. It’s a great experience for our clients, knowing that they have an expert getting to see their home office and being able to make recommendations to improve their comfort. We start by getting to know about you, and anyone you’ll be sharing the space with. We listen and look with both a medical and designer’s eye. We’ll teach you how best to use and arrange what you have, supplement what you need to, or design a whole new space to fit your needs. Sessions usually range from 45 to 90 minutes but are billed at a flat fee. We don’t need to be adding to your stress! And any products that we provide will be discounted at our corporate prices to all.
Our remote ergonomic consulting program works for either home or office-based workspaces. We can be engaged by individuals at their own expense or for reimbursement, but also by organizations who want to both enhance their employees’ well-being and reduce their liability exposure. Since employers are still responsible for work comp claims associated with repetitive stress injuries, creating a program to bring employees’ workspaces up to standard is a must. At an average of over $30,000* per case, you can generate a lot of goodwill and save a lot of money at the same time by creating a program with us.
ERGONOMIC CONSULTING AND PRODUCT SPECIFICATION FOR OFFICE SETTINGS
Applied Ergonomics offers a full range of ergonomics consulting services, discussed here. What sets us apart is that we know, have used and sold most of the best ergonomic products on the market, and understand who they fit and how they impact one’s postures. We think it is more helpful to suggest that a client buy a specific product that will produce the result that we are looking to achieve for them rather than giving a generic recommendation. We call this approach Prescription Furniture and we offer it both to consulting clients and to anyone who needs advice buying a product.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Careful management of specifications, order tracking, and delivery―plus proactive expediting of time-sensitive orders―helps projects move forward on schedule. We coordinate directly with manufacturers and freight carriers to ensure clear communications about orders and to track shipments.
Product deliveries are inspected for counts and visible freight damage so that we can replace damaged and missing items before they impact our clients. Packages are not opened though, as transporting open boxes or unbundled pallets is also likely to lead to freight damage so hidden damage may not be found until installation.
In the event of unforeseen schedule changes, our team can hold products, arrange for rental furniture, provide long-term storage, or identify alternate solutions.
Product literature, manuals, fabric cleaning instructions and warranties are provided. Plus, we maintain a database of as-built drawings, product specifications and inventory so future needs can be addressed quickly.
Whether we are providing them or a GC is, we coordinate with all of the other trades that are involved with our furniture, most frequently electricians and data cabling contractors.
FURNITURE INSTALLATION AND MOVING
We provide both Union and non-Union installation crews to manage our furniture installations cost-effectively. Our teams coordinate ahead with the building, general contractor, construction trades, and the architect on dock conditions, delivery schedules, certificates of insurance, elevator time, and anything else that may affect installation. An experienced project foreman is assigned to each installation to oversee the installation crew. However, on most of our installations we also have the Account Executive or even our President on site for at least a portion of the installation because we don’t want to burden the client or entrust an installer with having to make decisions or resolve product issues that are ours to handle. We know the design intent, we have the factory relationships and we are responsible for getting answers for installers and interfacing with clients and other trades. As the project nears completion, our team ensures that all punch-list items are completed and that the project is done to everyone’s satisfaction.
FLOORING INSTALLATION
We field both Union and non-Union crews to replace your existing flooring or install it as part of a new build-out. Our expert installers will move your furniture, take up your current carpet, repair the floor and reinstall virtually any commercial flooring product, including new carpet tile, broadloom carpet, LVT luxury vinyl tile or LVP luxury vinyl plank, ceramic, laminate or wood flooring. Other specialty flooring installation includes rubber flooring for commercial kitchens, vinyl sheet-goods for healthcare, and Tarkett Powerbond fused carpet rolls.
ART PROGRAMS
As beautiful as our interiors are, with great finishes and fabrics, spaces simply don’t look complete without art on the walls. We enjoy creating and furnishing art and graphics programs that make our projects feel alive.
ONGOING SUPPORT
Once you are an Applied Ergonomics client, we work hard to make sure you will always be an Applied Ergonomics client. In fact, many of our clients have been with us over a decade, and some for over two decades.
Clients look to Applied Ergonomics for:
• Additional products as new needs arise
• Product orientations for personnel
• Ergonomic training for departments
• Ergonomic evaluations for individuals with medical needs or discomfort
• Responsive product maintenance, repair or replacement in line with each product’s warranty
• Secure furniture warehousing and inventory
• Recycling and disposal of existing furniture and equipment
• Furniture reconfigurations
• Furnishing growth spaces
• Moving offices
• Blending existing with new furniture
• Recarpeting
