All of a sudden, office tables are seeing more and more use as replacement for desks and boardroom conference furniture, as more meetings take place requiring close quartered sharing of visual and verbal ideas. It is completely impractical to sit at one end of a 20 foot long boardroom table and toss a laptop computer to a client or manager seated at the other end. For this reason, quality office tables that pivot like a Lazy Susan and are expandable as if being used for a holiday supper have leapt in popularity.
The common conception of office tables being round cornered collapsible 3 foot by 6 foot utilitarian items has been replaced with a view of quality round pedestal tables that allow sharing of printed information and computer monitor viewing. Indeed a huge increase in teleconferencing around the globe also requires that tables suitable for web cams be placed into use. In many situations management offices are being built around such tables so as to eliminate the need for the traditional executive desk and create an environment that supports what amounts to constant meetings and assignments.