Office Screens Buyers Guide
Go into any office and the chances are that you’ll see an office screen; be it a desk screen or a floor standing screen. They’re everywhere – to the point where you probably don’t even realise they’re there anymore.
That being said, this seemingly straightforward piece of office furniture can quickly become a nightmare to order thanks to the massive product range and complicated industry jargon.
This buyer’s guide has been expertly written to help you get your head around the complex world of office screens whilst ensuring you spend your money on the most suitable solution.
What Is An Office Screen?
Office screens are a type of office partition. They are mostly used to provide privacy in the workplace, but they can also be used to display notices with hook and loop tape.
Available as freestanding or desk mounted, office screens are a temporary solution that helps to create private working environments.
Typically constructed from a wooden board core and covered with fabric, office screens can also be used to reduce noise pollution by adding sound absorbing foam padding which can significantly increase work productivity by removing distractions.
Office screens are known by lots of names, including:
- Office partitions
- Office partition screens
- Desk dividers
- Privacy screens
- Concertina screens
- Room dividers
- Acoustic screen
- Acoustic boards
- Office panels
Why Choose An Office Screen?
Office screens are a great, and often a necessary investment for any business because they are:
- Low on cost
- Can be used almost anywhere
- Multifunctional office furniture
- Ideal for open plan offices
- Increase productivity and concentration
- Creates tidy agile working spaces
- Adaptable to any environment
- Available with fast lead time
- Available in a wide variety of sizes and styles
- Flexible and movable office screens
- Acoustic options for noise reduction
Office screens provide many benefits to the working environment. They create individual working spaces giving employees their own private space to work. They are perfect for reducing noise pollution in open plan offices helping employees to concentrate and preform better.
Our moveable office screens also provide a solution for creating the perfect office layout with agile working spaces for different departments.
Office screens are also great for covering up unsightly wires and cabling issues that many offices must consider. Not only do they keep the office space looking tidy, with the number of designs and colours available they bring a bright, bold and modern aesthetic.
As most office screens are both flexible and portable, it its extremely easy to redesign the office layout to accommodate for new office desks and equipment.
Office screens are extremely adaptable and can be used for lots of different applications within several types of settings, including:
- Open plan offices
- Call centres
- Training rooms
- Leisure centres
- Staff rooms
- Schools
- Reception areas
- Libraries
- Universities & college
- Community centres
- Canteens & breakout rooms
- Showrooms
Open Plan Office
Showroom
Training Rooms
Libraries
Reception Area
Call Centre
What Types Of Office Screens Are There?
Office screens come in many varieties to suit all types of office and workplace environments. The most popular types of screens that we supply are:
Office dividers are modular partition screens that allow you to segregate areas in an open plan office space to provide privacy and effectively reduce noise pollution.
Room dividers are ideal for creating individual departmental sections in large open spaces or personal workstations which helps to create a flexible, efficient and productive workforce.
They are affordable, functional, versatile and available in a wide range of styles including mobile office dividers, free standing partitions, clear acrylic screens as well as printed office screens which offer an additional benefit of visible company branding throughout the office.
- Range of sizes and styles available
- Integrates social distancing measures
- Reduces noise pollution in busy environments
- Branded office dividers available
- Cost-effective screen solutions
- Linkable & reconfigurable dividers
- In-stock options for next day delivery
Glazed and acrylic office screens offer a contemporary solution to create privacy in the workplace. You can choose from a range of different colour finishes, as well as Perspex desk screens or floor standing acrylic screens. The glazed panels are great for creating private working spaces but without blocking out light and visibility and reducing communication. Glazed dividers are also ideal for integrating social distancing measures in the workplace and help to create safe workplaces in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The see-through, clear vision panels create a physical protective barrier which helps with virus control but without minimising the ability to collaborate and work together. These clear Perspex screens benefit from easy-clean, wipeable surfaces that are extremely easy to maintain and keep sanitised to ensure a hygienic environment for everyone to go about their day to day activities.
- Ideal social distancing screens
- Freestanding protection barriers
- Hygienic, wipeable, easy clean surfaces
- Ideal for customer-facing and office environments
- Creates a physical separation barrier
- Bespoke sizes available on request
- Choice of colour finishes
- Available in a variety of sizes
Social distancing screens are an ideal solution for businesses that need to react to the changing economic challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. Clear office screens act as a physical protective barrier enabling your business to operate safely and efficiently, whilst protecting your staff from threat of infection.
Sneeze screens help with virus control and prevention of infection due to their wipeable, easy to clean surfaces that if sanitised and maintained regularly, can help reduce the spread of infection creating a safer workplace.
These hygienic Covid barriers can be positioned between desks and quickly deployed to any location where a separation screen is needed. Dividing Perspex screens help to ease the minds of employees that their working environment is safe to work in therefore maximising productivity and concentration.
- Hygienic screens for safer workstations
- Ideal social distancing screens
- Clear glazed surfaces that allow light and visibility
- Wipeable, easy to clean and sanitise
- Perspex or acrylic glass barriers
- Effective virus control screens
- Moveable and reconfigurable
- Freestanding, desk mounted and mobile options
- Demountable screens are easy to install in any location
In stock office screens are our most popular range of office screens. They are available for next day dispatch when ordered before 11am, making them a cost-effective and time-effective solution. You can choose from a desk screen or freestanding floor screen. Available in a wide choice of widths and heights. Each display screen is covered with luxury loop nylon fabric in either red, grey, blue or black.
- Low-cost, entry-level option
- Desk screen or floor screen
- Four fabric colours
- Several heights and widths available
- Next day dispatch when ordered before 11am
Desk screens are used to create individual booths between computer stations. Not only do desk screens give employees and students privacy when working; they also add a neat and professional finishing touch to any workplace. Mounted on to desk using a metal clamp, desk screens provide privacy for employees and can be used to reduce distractions & increase productivity. Desk screens can be linked together to create right-angle screens which are perfect for separating out multiple desks within a desk pod.
- Affordable screen solution
- Range of widths and heights available
- Supplied with desk clamps
- Different shapes available
- Covered with fire rated fabric
- Choice of 12 fabric colours
- Bespoke sizes available
- Linkable screens
Floor screens are great for sectioning off areas within the workplace such as break out corners and meeting booths. They can be used as a privacy screen in front of office desks so that visitors cannot see underneath desk and cables are not in sight. They’re also commonly used in GP surgeries to provide privacy for patients filling out forms and booklets.
- Five heights and widths to choose from
- Portable and easy to store
- Stabilising feet included
- Curved screens also available
- Next day dispatch on in-stock options
- Available in a variety of colours and styles
- Fire rated fabric
- Can be linked together to create larger screens
Acoustic office screens are manufactured to absorb noise in large, open-plan offices. There are two types of acoustic office screens: standard and premium. Premium acoustic office screens are slightly thicker and more effective at absorbing noise and therefore at helping to reduce distractions in the workplace. The sound absorbing foam can significantly reduce noise in working environments therefore making working office more effective.
- Sound absorbing desk screens and floor screens
- Two thicknesses – 35mm and 60mm
- Partially glazed and curved options available
- Designed to reduce noise pollution
- Helps to create productive working offices
- Suitable for linking together
Concertina screens are a movable and portable type of office screen. These large format screens are often used as room dividers within schools, offices, NHS buildings and community centres. Castor wheels and a foldable frame make them easy to store away when not in use.
- Three sizes available
- Covered with fire rated fabric
- Mounted on locking castor wheels
- 6 fabric colours to choose from
- Easy to move and store
Office pods are ideal for creating private meeting rooms or offices in large, modern and open plan working environments. Available in a wide range of sizes, colours and styles, you can create your own unique office pod with a choice of glazed or fabric covered walls. They have been designed to create a quiet space for collaborative teamwork and are often used to create a room within a room. Despite them being available in many different sizes, they still remain easy to disassemble and reassemble in a different location in the event of a change in the office layout.
- Bespoke designs available
- Promotes collaborative teamwork
- Useful room within a room
- Ideal for many different locations
- Can be designed to suit your office space
- Optional professional installation
- Unique design service available
Sneeze Screens have fast become an essential part of the fight against Coronavirus. Designed to help businesses in all sectors such as retail, hospitality reduce the risk of infection and increase employee safety.
For face to face services it can be difficult to maintain strict social distancing measures and sneeze screens help to minimise contact between staff and customers.
We offer a wide range of sneeze guards that can be positioned on any work surface, desktop, and counter. We offer screens with cut out service hatches that allow contact free transactions to happen in a safe and controlled manner.
- Wide range of styles and sizes
- Perspex®, plexiglass, safety glass and acrylic surface options
- Ideal social distancing screens
- Hygienic and wipeable screens
- Provides a physical barrier between people
- Reduces contact for essential services
- Affordable and effective
- Can be deployed quickly and easily
Our range of Screens on Wheels are available in a choice of sizes, styles and surface options and can be used to integrate social distancing in the workplace, to segregate or cordon off areas, to help direct the flow of traffic or to simply divide rooms.
We offer a choice of fabric covered mobile screens, genuine Perspex® screens on wheels, mobile partitions made from toughened safety glass and acrylic mobile room dividers.
Each mobile screen is mounted onto easy-glide castor wheels making them moveable and easy to manoeuvre into position. Locking wheels can be secured when in position for safety.
Mobile screens can be used in a wide variety of business settings where there is a need to divide an open space but a permanent wall is not wanted.
- Moveable partition dividers
- Can be deployed quickly and easily
- Suitable for open plan offices
- Complete with locking castor wheels
- Choice of fabric or clear screens
- Helps to integrate social distancing
- Freestanding room dividers
- Range of sizes & styles to choose from
- Divides workstations
- Temporary or permanent solution
ACHOO® Screens are our premium range of protection screens designed and manufactured in the UK to help keep businesses open and operating safely during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Choose from a wide range of styles that have been chosen for their ability to create safe, modern, and stylish working environments with the added benefit of protection from infections.
Choose from free standing, desk mounted and mobile solutions that can be used in any sector. Manufactured using premium and high-quality materials that have been manufactured to last well beyond the Coronavirus pandemic.
The see-through clear vision panels allow communication and visibility to continue in the workplace whilst ensuring maximum safety. They can be regularly sanitised throughout the working day without compromising the quality of the protection screens.
- Creates a physical barrier for safer working
- Helps to reduce contact & spread of infection
- Range of sizes and styles available
- Premium protection screens
- Wipeable screens for hygienic workstations
- Cost effective and easy to deploy
- Genuine Perspex® surfaces available
- Suitable for all working sectors
- Improves employee & customer protection
- Minimal installation required
Acoustic panels are ideal for busy, noisy environments such as open-plan offices, call-centres, sales departments, schools and training colleges. Acoustic Wall Panels offer an intelligent, low-impact solution which can minimise sound reverberation, creating a more pleasant work environment that remains open and friendly. Available in a range of shapes, sizes and colours that you can mix and match to create decorative, feature wall designs that are functional and practical for working environments.
- Upholstered Textured Fabric Wall Boards
- Sound Absorbing Acoustic Foam Core
- Choice of 26 Vibrant Colours
- Traditional Keyhole Brackets 3M® Command Wall Strips
- Iconic Shape to Compliment Modern Room Decor
- Can be Hung in Multiple Orientations
- Mix and Match Modular Acoustic Panels
- Reduces Sound Reverberations in Rooms
- Manufactured in the UK
Exclusive to XL Displays, FRONTIER® Office Screens are the perfect solution to compliment any modern office decor.
FRONTIER® Office Screens are a complete range of office partitions with a broad range of practical uses in a variety of sizes, surface and colour options. The complete range of partitions are finished with the same aluminium frame, meaning that you can mix and match different styles of divider easily, linking them together for a seamlessly coordinated look.
The FRONTIER® range includes standard fabric, acoustic, part-glazed, glazed and vinyl screens in desk mounted and freestanding partitions. The versatile nature of this range means that these screen solutions can be used in practically any sector - including the medical field.
- Modern office screen range
- Range of sizes and styles available
- Freestanding and desk mounted
- Minimalistic, sleek office partitions
- Quick and easy to install
- Wipeable screens for hygienic workstations
- Upholstered in fire rated fabric
- Anti-microbial partitions available
- Linkable office screens
- Designed & manufactured in the UK
