It’s nice to know that people care about paying it forward here in San Diego - especially during the holidays. Office desks may seem like an unusual gift, but they can make a big difference to cash strapped organizations. Over on Yelp.com, poster Heather B. asks how she can donate her used office furniture to a non-profit or a school. Respondent dan “sophomoric” q. has a great recommendation - visit the ILoveSchools website to find teachers in need.
This site has a section specifically for individuals or businesses who want to donate used or new equipment or supplies. You can use the search function to help match your donation with schools in San Diego. Office desks can be used in administrative centers, as teacher’s desks in classrooms, for work stations in computer labs, and much more. The holiday season is the perfect time to renovate your offices and ensure that your old furniture goes to a worthy cause.
Knoll currently has an interesting white paper on call centers available in its “sector focus” library. According to the data in this paper, there are approximately 78,000 call centers in the U.S. Some 2 million employees work in these environments. The nature of the work (which could reasonably be described as uninspiring and stressful) often leads to high turnover. Knoll systems furniture is designed to take just a little of the dreariness and discomfort out of this work atmosphere.
Adding workstations or restructuring your existing furnishings is made as pain-free as possible with standardized parts. Knoll boasts that its newest additions are still designed to connect with virtually all the components the company has manufactured over the last 3 decades.
Nothing makes a reception or waiting area feel more comfortable than the right piece of modular 
The Align series of 
Have you ever seen how we get things done here in San Diego? Cubicles may take hours to install for other people, but the guys in this video handle the entire job in just over 1 minute. OK - that’s using time lapse film techniques! Still, it’s pretty cool to see a whole office environment take shape before your eyes.
Could buying refurbished office cubicles in lieu of new ones delay the day when we run out of fossil fuels? That’s one conclusion you might reach after reading this news article on oil shortages caused by new cubicle manufacturing. The link between the ubiquity of cubicles in the work place and the dwindling global oil supply is disturbing.
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 
Controlling noise levels in your telemarketing cubicles presents significant challenges. When employees are exposed to 
A high NRC works by reducing noise within a space. In other words, a person would experience less sound reverberating off the walls of his/her own cube because the panels absorb it. A high STC works by reducing the transfer of noise into an adjoining space. In other words, the person in the next cube would experience less sound leaking through from “next door” because it is blocked.
You have several options when it comes to buying used office furniture. San Diego area vendors often sell these items 
In August, the SoCal chapter of the International Interior Design Association (
