Seven seconds. That’s all the time you have to make a first impression. What’s someone likely to see during their first seven seconds in your workplace? Even more importantly, what lasting impression of your brand will clients take away as they exit your doors?

Investing in office design is an investment in your employees. Companies are discovering that purposeful design of office spaces is increasing employee productivity and improving employee performance, which yields more profit and saves money over time.

The meeting notification on your desktop signals a strategy session that’s starting in an hour.

You shift into focus mode as you review notes from meetings prior. A silent, uninterrupted brainstorm produces the ideas you’ll bring to the table.

Ahhh. The morning routine.

You take a shower, read the paper, brainstorm the best way to navigate traffic on your way to the gym, catch a bus to work and then settle into your cube so you can focus intensely on a deadline-driven project.

Have you ever arrived early for a job interview and surveyed your surroundings?

Maybe you noticed the coffee mug rings on archaic desks and the 80s-vintage art, suggesting what the daily routine might be like. As you fidgeted in your uncomfortable, threadbare chair, you probably weighed your options.