Decorating Office Cubicles for Birthdays
The office cubicle is a tiny space in a larger area where you will spend approximately eight hours a day, so how it's decorated definitely impacts your overall mood. This oasis of self-expression allows you to marry individual style along with a professional company standard. When a colleague celebrates a birthday, it can prove a fun office project to decorate office cubicles that bring a little more pop and joy to your co-worker's day.
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Use Color
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Odds are good that your overall workplace landscape is done in more conservative, neutral colors to project a professional atmosphere. It may even be likely that dramatic splashes of color are prohibited by company policy on personal cubicle decoration, to maintain this uniformity. Since color is an effective way to boost or elevate your mood, a birthday is a temporary excuse to use bolder, brighter colors in your decorations.
Go Big or Small
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To decorate your office for special events like birthdays, party supplies are sold both individually and in kits. String a banner across the cubicle wall, hang streamers from the ceiling or even scatter colorful confetti spread across the desk top. If your company doesn't have the materials or funds for this type of theme, use colorful sticky notes with sentiments individually written by your entire team. Stick them strategically around the computer monitor and on the wall so everywhere he turns he'll get a thoughtful birthday greeting.
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Balloons and Flowers
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Like confetti, balloons make for fun one-use decorations. If the balloons are inflated with helium, use weights to anchor them to the desk, or tie them to different fixtures around the cubicle. How high you wish to display the balloons may depend on the height of the cubicle walls and your office policy on special events decorations. Flowers add both color and fragrance to a cubicle, as well as a bit of elegance for your female coworkers.
Considerations
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When purchasing any decorations for your office, make the designs fun for folks at any age. Lean toward more gender-neutral colors you can reuse, and make them complementary for your office's overall decor. Rather than a traditional birthday cake which requires utensils and paper goods, opt for finger foods such as cupcakes or cookies. Also take care that the decorations enhance the cubicle, but do not impede your colleague's ability to perform his tasks.
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