In 2024, Wellworking celebrates 25 years of being in enterprise, a milestone I’m pleased with in such a aggressive market. Quite a bit has modified over that point, and I’m excited by simply how a lot working habits will rework over the following few many years too. Once I first established the corporate in 1999, it was known as House Working Options as I felt there have been growing numbers of individuals working from residence that wanted acceptable furnishings to try this. It was essential to me that they’d entry to high quality ergonomic merchandise as I felt that folks working from residence had only a few choices on supply on the time.
By harnessing rising expertise and providing these merchandise on-line, we have been in a position to present quick, reasonably priced entry to top quality merchandise. It was one thing that no different firm gave the impression to be providing at the moment. We established stable relationships with key manufacturing companions, that are nonetheless simply as sturdy right now, and this additionally served us effectively once we started to maneuver into the office extra.
Whereas the corporate could have began options for residence working, we rapidly established a popularity for experience in wellbeing and ergonomics. Quickly companies have been trying to us to assist with their workplaces and office wellbeing programmes, in addition to their homeworking wants. It was by way of these relationships that we have been in a position to develop certainly one of our most profitable campaigns, FastAeron. We have been one of many earliest corporations to supply this massively widespread Herman Miller chair on a really brief lead time to purchasers.
A change of identify was wanted to replicate this and so we grew to become Wellworking, focussing on ‘All the pieces about working effectively’. Our portfolio of merchandise included not solely desks and chairs, however furnishings for breakout areas, eating areas and assembly rooms.
We’ve been lucky sufficient since then to win Nationwide Awards for our Buyer Service, Web site, Office Wellbeing programmes and advertising and marketing initiatives, all pushed by our ongoing need to assist our purchasers work effectively, wherever and nevertheless they’re working.
Quick-forward to the 2020s and we’re actually now not on our personal within the on-line furnishings market, however I’m assured we’re nonetheless main the best way and persevering with to develop as a enterprise. Our early involvement serving to folks working from residence put us in an skilled and extremely succesful place when companies all of the sudden wanted all their employees to WFH through the pandemic.
We already had an environment friendly, in-house logistics division and understood that prospects prized timed supply slots and glorious customer support over many different components when selecting a furnishings provider. Whereas many individuals could now be returning to the workplace full time, we see companies starting to recognise that the workplace they supply for his or her employees should improve the work expertise not simply facilitate it.
Workplace tendencies come and go however on the core of all of them helps folks work extra productively and comfortably, in impact serving to employees ‘work effectively’. With 25 years of expertise of doing simply that, we’re assured we may also help our purchasers maximise their work alternatives, no matter adjustments happen within the office over the following 25 years.
