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Throughout the past couple years of global pandemics, stay at home orders, and lockdowns, chances are that many of you may have been forced into working from home for an extended period of time. One recent report found that
“before the pandemic, only 6 percent of the employed worked primarily from home and about three-quarters of workers had never worked from home. In May 2020, over one-third of the employed worked from home due to the pandemic—a close match for pre-pandemic estimates of the share of work that could be done remotely.”
Though most businesses have opened back up, some experts believe that around 22 percent of the workforce, or 36.2 million American workers, will continue to work remotely full-time by 2025.
There are both benefits and drawbacks that come with working from home. However, as we continue to master Zoom meetings and learn to stay productive from our home offices, remote work should remain a fundamental part of the work landscape across the United States.
Though many analysts have looked at how remote work will affect both businesses and their employees, one of the less considered “casualties” of this shift to at-home work is the enormous amount of office furniture taking up space in largely empty office buildings across the country.
Early in the pandemic, around 75 percent of office-based businesses and similar professional occupations had implemented remote work, and most workers and employers in office-based businesses expect to permanently implement more flexible remote work opportunities once the pandemic ceases.
What exactly are business owners going to do with the enormous number of office desks, cubicles, computers, and dozens of other types of office furniture that are gathering dust in now-empty office buildings?
One tech company in Austin, Texas, to name just one example, had purchased hundreds of electric sit-stand desks and ergonomic chairs to attract top employee talent just before the pandemic began. Today, they are packing over 70 trailers with those office furniture items as they attempt to sell them for a loss on the resale market.
Even before the pandemic fundamentally changed the nature of work, offices and other businesses were sending an enormous amount of furniture to the dumps every year. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), old pieces of office furniture are the primary source of furniture waste, accounting for an estimated 8.5 million tons of furniture waste per year.
As more and more employees transition to at home work, businesses need to find sustainable and environmentally friendly ways to deal with their excess office furniture. Below, we offer three ways in which business owners in Alameda can get rid of their office furniture in an easy, efficient, and ecological manner.
Sell High-Quality Used Office Furniture
For businesses who have high quality used office furniture, selling those items may very well be an option worth exploring. In the coming years, there will most likely be millions of American workers looking to create home offices where they can stay productive while working from home. Ergonomic office desks and dual monitor workstations are certainly not cheap, and many newly remote workers may be looking to purchase lightly used office furniture for their home workplaces.
If you have an enormous inventory of used office furniture that you want to sell, but don’t want to have to deal with selling each piece individually, there are also resale companies that might purchase an entire lot of office furniture you are wanting to get rid of. This company, for example, buys gently used cubicles, desks, chairs and other pieces of office furniture and can help you quickly dismantle and remove your office furniture. In the Alameda region, Quality Office Liquidations might also be a potential place to sell your used office furniture items.
Consider Donating the Used Office Furniture
Some businesses might want to avoid the hassle of selling all of their used office furniture. In that case, donating cubicles, desks, chairs, computers, monitors, and other pieces of office equipment might be an option worth exploring.
In Alameda, there are dozens of thrift stores, donation centers, charities, and other similar businesses that might accept your used furniture items and either donate them or sell at a discounted price to people in search of a bargain.
By donating your used office furniture items, your business can ensure that bulky furniture stays out of our already overfilled landfills. This practice also reduces demand for resources needed for making new pieces of office furniture.
Call Junk King of Alameda for All your Office Furniture Removal Needs
If you are unable to sell your used office furniture, and don’t have the time or heavy duty truck needed to haul dozens of unused office desks down to your local Goodwill, Junk King of Alameda offers easy, efficient, and affordable office furniture removal.
We are proud to be the leading junk removal service for individuals and business owners in the Bay area. We provide junk removal services to the Peninsula area, including residential and commercial service to people in Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Castro Valley, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Hercules, Newark, Oakland, Pinole, Richmond, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, San Pablo, and Sunol.
Our junk removal team has developed solid, long-standing relationships with several donation and recycling centers around our communities, including Goodwill, the Salvation Army, local homeless shelters, Habitat for Humanity, and more.
With these relationships, we are able to help business owners in Alameda get rid of virtually any type of large, bulky furniture items that are taking up space in your business. Instead of sending your old or unused desks, chairs, cubicles to the dump, we can help to ensure that these items are either donated or sold at a discounted price to other businesses or newly remote workers looking to furnish a home office.
Computers, monitors, phones, televisions, printers, copy machines, and other common office electronics are another source of office furniture waste that require special consideration. These electronics are known as electronic waste (e-waste), and should not be sent to the landfill as they may leach heavy metals and other toxic chemicals into the local environment. Here at Junk King of Alameda, we can also help you safely and legally get rid of all your sources of e-waste.
Our company is also proud to say that we offer superior customer service. We have dedicated staff waiting to answer your call and help you find an effective solution for every office furniture removal needs. For online and text price estimates, we also make every effort to give you a response in 10 minutes or less.
Fair pricing, quality customer service, and a sincere commitment to recycling or reusing at least 60 percent of the junk we pick up are just a few of the reasons that Junk King is the Bay area’s number one preferred junk removal service.
Simply call us at 1-888-5865(JUNK) or consider booking us online here. Again, we offer up-front pricing that will leave you feeling like the weight of your clutter has been lifted off your shoulders. Call us today to help free up space in your business without so much as lifting a finger.
