CHAPTER 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

I N T R O D U C T I O N An explicit place where someone can spend every minute of his/her spare time to relax or do some work in the office is what every Professional will definitely need on their workplace. As an office/faculty staff, the most vital office furniture that can be considered necessary was the office/faculty table and chair. This will give the employee the space and allotment that he or she needs to perform their task. Nevertheless, it is not easy to choose a working table because there are many different office/faculty tables available in the market, where in you can be comfortable to execute tasks at the same time as a Professional who performs his/ her job he/she can accomplish it with attentiveness on work by putting a partition. Deciding what style of office/faculty table you would like (contemporary, traditional, classic wood, laminate, etc.) is very difficult and balancing it with what you can afford. Additional costs will also encounter with options that are added to each office/faculty table. Office/faculty table options can include drawers, shelves, hutches, lateral file drawers, credenzas. However, these added options for the office/faculty tables can help a lot for the orderliness of the workplace same through with the organizations of the table. Many manufacturer of office furniture which offers high-end products, bargains a variety of office tables. But the thing is, does it exactly suffice the needs of their consumers? An office table is not just as plain as a normal table, it is necessary to have each and every specification that will help the user to perform their job accurately and will definitely not sacrifice the comfortability of the user, in that case Human Factors and Ergonomics is involved. Ergonomically designed office/faculty tables will help to prevent the office injuries that may occur due to the inappropriate design of table and with the proper use of ergonomics in the design of office/faculty table, the productivity of the user will escalate to a higher level. Besides of the comfortability and proper design of tables, the focus and privacy of the user must also be maintained by using dividers.

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The proponent’s intent in this research is to give emphasis on how to achieve someone’s high-level of productivity while being able to maintain the level of comfortability using his/her office/faculty table, a supplementary partition will be added to preserve the focus that is needed for the work to be done. Office works are very stressful and more on mental and intellectual process, and it is not good for someone to spend the whole working hours on an unpleasant working place such as a table with unorganized working materials. Thus the unorganized things will just contribute to an additional stress on the work. It is also essential to have an adequate space for other necessities, but it is not possible that each employee in the office will be given a larger working space. A lot of studies shows that a number of diseases can be obtained in the office such chronic back pains, upper back and neck discomfort these diseases are caused by inappropriate table design.