Christopher Cartre's Articles in General Business

  • A Human Centered Approach In The Office
    Employee satisfaction is highly correlated with job performance and productivity. There are numerous factors that affect worker satisfaction, however, recent research indicates a strong relationship between workplace design and employee satisfaction. According to a recent study, workplace design that allows employees to control their work environment increases satisfaction and productivity. That is, workers with control over their working space consistently report greater satisfaction with their jobs.
  • Customized Cubicles without Sticker Shock
    For many the workspace is a home for one third of the day. While there are variations in time of occupancy during the work week, an employee’s home away from home says a lot about the employee and the company for whom he or she works.
  • How They Weight Bulk Mail With Special Counting Scales
    Bulk mail advertising is very widespread. Virtually every home and business in the United States receives a huge amount of advertising literature. This may come in the form of product catalogs, color postcards, folded brochures, inserts or any other format that the advertising world can dream of. Unusual shapes and formats are often used in order to capture the reader's attention.
  • Declutter Your Office: File and Storage
    As the nation's workforce grows businesses adopt strategies to maximize work area and minimize lost space. This translates into smaller individual offices and larger collaborative areas. The trend towards smaller personal work spaces, however, creates new problems for businesses. One of the most pressing issues in today's corporate environment is managing and storing information.
  • How Do They Weight Food For Packaging?
    Within an industrial application, it is often desirable to keep track of the weight of an item as it changes over time. The simplest example of this is a tank of liquid or liquefied gas that is used in an industrial process. The material may be an adhesive that is dispensed onto a substrate. Or it may be a coating or paint that is sprayed on an object. Alternatively, multiple ingredients are often fed into a mixing container, and the amount in each container must be recorded. Other applications include a gas that is used during the etching process of a semiconductor wafer or resist or masking material that is used in the same procedure. Within the food industry, a wide variety of liquids, powders or other materials are mixed together in fixed recipes.
  • Trading Oil in Commodity - Futures Trading
    Traditionally, commodity trading in petroleum products was a place where only the elite, super traders dared to venture. With barrels holding 42 gallons each and a contract minimum of 1,000 barrels, delivering oil was a task best left to the professionals. However, the petroleum trading landscape has undergone some dramatic changes over recent years.
  • Negotiating Office Lease Packages
    For growing companies it generally is inevitable – more space is needed to handle the expanding business.
    “Finding suitable new quarters can be stressful as companies seek a balance between budgets and a desirable location,” says Mark Bassil, co-founder and vice president of MAiSPACE, a Mt. Olive, NJ, based manufacturer of modular office furniture systems.
  • Furnishing Tips for the Executive Suite
    Systems furniture is not generally associated with corner offices and executive suites, according to Mark Bassil, co-founder and vice president of MAiSPACE, a Mt. Olive, NJ, based manufacturer of modular office furniture systems. “But by doing some homework smart interior designers and facility managers can save substantial amounts of money, time and aggravation by single-sourcing the entire project to integrated, turnkey providers in the contract furniture industry.”
  • Supporting Teaming with Systems Furniture
    When Kelly Johnson brought together a hand-picked team of Lockheed engineers and manufacturing people at Burbank in the wartime year of 1943, each team member was cautioned that design and production of the new P-80 Shooting Star jet fighter must be carried out in strict secrecy. No one was to discuss the project outside the small organization, and team members were even warned to be careful how they answered the telephones.
  • Office Cubicles and the Technology
    Office furniture must keep up with technological advances. As new technology is introduced, the office furniture industry needs to make necessary adjustments. Thus, when computer and monitor sizes change, desks must evolve accordingly. For instance, in the past, when computers were significantly larger, desks needed to have a larger surface area. However, today, the latest computers are more compact and desks do not need to be as bulky as in the past.
  • Movable Wall Systems and the Modular Office
    Office planning for today’s multitasked workplace environment requires a carefully planned and tailored blend of workspace layouts and floor plans to accommodate personnel employing a wide range of skill sets. Experience, sometimes painful, has taught us that there is no one solution to a modular office system – spaces must be tailored to the tasks being performed.
  • Paint Formulation Process Using Industrial Scales
    The human eye is one of the most sensitive and accurate optical instruments known. Along with interaction with the human brain, the eye is capable of recognizing and differentiating thousands of different human faces. It can detect the smallest amount of motion in an otherwise static view. It is capable of recognizing written letters, combinations of these letters, and can formulate words, ideas and themes when these letters are formed into words, sentences, paragraphs, and books.
  • Large Cylinder Scales Weigh Chlorine and Other Liquified Gasses
    Many types of gases are stored under pressure in liquefied form. This allows large quantities of the gas to be stored and used in industrial processes. Generally, these gasses are contained in cylinders, dewars or tanks. As the gas is required, and released from the tank, a small amount of the liquid will boil off into gas. A valve will allow this gas to be piped into the required area. The remaining contents will stay in liquid form until further gas is required.
  • Platform Scales Used For Commercial Laundry Applications
    Laundry services across the country process many tons of laundry daily. There are massive requirements throughout the armed services. Each of tens of thousands of hotels must launder linens, towels, and other articles. Large restaurants may have in house laundry facilities, while smaller ones contract to professional laundry services. Schools, and camps may need to provide laundry services for their students. Many industrial firms need to launder uniforms or protective clothing. And of course there are any number of professional laundry services that are available to consumers.
  • Systems Furniture Solutions for Virtual Offices
    Virtual offices, also called shared office space, and executive suites or serviced offices, provide temporary facilities for organizations setting up operations in a new location or space for additional personnel.
  • Employment and Industry Outlook
    Employment Outlook, 2000-2010, published by the Department of Labor`s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) states that the twenty-first century workplace is a completely different environment; the future will bring even more significant changes. The BLS report examined the job scene in the United States in the forthcoming decade with a goal of projecting the developments in two key areas: percentage growth and numerical growth. According to BLS, total employment is projected to increase by 22 million (to 167.8 million) jobs or 15.2 percent - slightly less than the 17 percent growth during the 1990s.
  • Strategies to Lower Office Lease Costs
    In challenging economic times business owners must be creative in seeking ways to lower the costs of running their organizations. At the same time they must maintain modern workspaces in order to keep valued employees and to provide an attractive hiring environment when business conditions improve.