How To Decorate Your Office Space

Decorating your office involves more than mixing and matching stuffs to fit in with the desired look. While maintaining the style and vibe that you want others to perceive in your office décor, you have to set that professional tone and make it approachable enough for interested guests and future clients. (So you see, it is not just about putting this and that in their places just because you think they look good there.) Here are a few helpful tips on how to decorate you office while balancing a warm and productive environment:

Color Your World. Colors are important facets of the office. They not just add life to the workplace, but it has also been noted that color can be conducive to a person's psychology. Hence, try to choose the color that would best describe your business. Traditional institutions or businesses such as banking, hospitals, legal services, will be better off with the mix of neutral colors. If your business is involved with creatives, or the modern approaches, then try a more free-spirited look which will best fit the atmosphere of artists, designers, and the like. Do not be afraid to dabble loud colors with artwork every now and then. But whatever suits your company best, make sure that you choose the right kind of paint that is bound to last as well. (hint: green has been proven to be a healthy color that can reduce absenteeism, and is friendly to the eyes.)

Deck the Walls. Bare walls can either give the illusion of space, or the perception of being dull and very empty. This kind of vibe can affect the working mood of the employees, so give the walls a little touch of life. Hang some exquisite paintings or some motivational posters about life and work, photos of the staff or the company people, certificates---all of them. Just remember to match everything, from the frames to the mood of the ones that are to be displayed on the wall.

These are just few simple steps on how to decorate the office. Sometimes, we tend to splurge on lavish ergonomic office furnitures. While there is nothing wrong with this, it would not be so bad to mind the surroundings too.

Verizon is looking to "simplify" its offerings by paring down its handset lineup and upping its data charges per megabyte. The company announced Friday that it would begin rolling out new service plans ahead of its 4G launch that were geared towards higher revenues, but also bringing in more customers. And, while that news may sound annoying to some of us data hogs, it will probably work for the wireless carrier.

First, the details: Verizon has introduced a new data tier at $9.99 per month with a 25MB cap—this is the cheapest data plan now offered by the company and by most US wireless carriers, and applies to all 3G devices. Why does this equate to "upping" the data charges? Because the company is ditching its $19.99 per month plan with a 75MB cap altogether—you must either go with the $9.99 plan for a third of the data or or the $29.99 smartphone plan that applies to WinMo, Android, or BlackBerry devices.

By lowering the entry cost for a data package, Verizon is making a grab at average customers who have been put off by high data prices in the past. These customers can then get hooked on data for the same price as a trip to McDonald's and then, like that trip to McDonald's, be lured into super sizing once the 4G/LTE network is up and running.

On top of the data plan restructuring is Verizon's plan to slim down its device lineup. Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam told analysts on a conference call this morning that it is looking to take its 80 devices down to 50. (Really? Verizon offers eighty phones!?) The goal is to make the offerings easier to parse, both by customers and Verizon's sales team. In this sense, simplification is usually a good thing.

Verizon acknowledged that it's on the offensive with these moves in an attempt to bring in more customers, increase data penetration, get lower-end customers paying more, and increase revenue overall. (In addition to the data plan changes, the carrier also introduced a $69.99 unlimited nationwide talk plan, and an $89.99 unlimited talk and text plan.) To that end, it's likely to succeed—Verizon's network is already attractive to most mainstream customers, and a lower barrier to entry will net more customers who weren't previously interested in mobile data, even if the cost per meg is going up.