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With every passing day the line between a person’s social life and office life is fading.  People tend to check official emails and reply to them after dinner and many are texting friends during business meetings. As the trends change corporate meeting room Melbourne too is taking cue and changing its face and shape in terms of design and facilities provided.

Gone are the days of somewhat antiseptic looking corporate meeting room Melbourne, these have now been replaced with comfortable looking lounging rooms that encourage people to mingle helping ideas to flow smoothly. There was a time when conferences and meetings were the only means of communicating important information to everyone at one go. Today most of the information can be easily acquired through various means like websites, simulcast, online videos etc. so today’s conferences and corporate meetings are more for a face-to-face networking than just the flow of information.

This has inspired business hotels to redesign their function rooms Melbourne CBD into spaces that look more social spaces. Here you can easily organize impromptu connections, small gatherings as well as big corporate meetings. Even the corporate world is moving away from the standard dull looking meeting rooms and opting for comfortable lounge like spaces where the attendees can relax and get work done. Some of the unique ideas include decorative objects, shelves of books, conversational seating arrangements, central food and bar service area (unlike the temporary food stations that a standard meeting generally has.

In sharp contrast to the typical meeting room layout of long hallway, minimal décor, formal round stiff seating, the effect of the new design is more relaxed and residential ambience. In fact some of the newly designed corporate meeting rooms boast of stone and wood flooring, leather furniture and richly coloured carpets.

In fact many hotels design the spaces for multipurpose use transcending the regular conference rooms. Even if the seating arrangement is a formal conference or meeting type participants need to be comfortable when they are listening to the speakers. The hotels are getting customized chair designs that include storage space below the seat so that briefcases and laptops can be tucked away. The stackable plastic chairs in the meeting rooms are being replaced with padded chairs that can swivel and tip back.

All the new designing is definitely not at the cost of facilities. You can still get the same facilities like display boards, audio visual equipments, Wi-Fi capabilities and even the secretary on call. What has changed is the way both businesses and hotels are looking at corporate meetings, no more the dull drab one sided talks but more of networking with ideas and suggestions flowing both ways.