Filing cabinets
Still necessary wherever physical records have to be kept, and increasingly over-bought everywhere else.
Check the drawers run out fully
A drawer that only opens two-thirds wastes the back third of the cabinet, and you will not notice until it is full. Full-extension runners are the single specification worth paying attention to here.
Buy for today, not for 2015
Most offices hold a fraction of the paper they did a decade ago. Count what you actually need to file before ordering, and consider whether a cupboard with adjustable shelves would be more useful over its life.
Locks, ballast and safety
If you hold personnel or client records, a lock is not optional. Check whether it locks all drawers at once or each individually, since the second is quickly ignored in practice.
Also check for an anti-tilt mechanism that stops more than one drawer opening at a time. A tall cabinet with two full drawers out will go over, and that is a genuine injury risk rather than a specification detail.
Ranges we stock
Impulse and Qube filing cabinets run in two, three and four drawer heights with full-extension runners and anti-tilt. Where you hold less paper than you used to, a cupboard with adjustable shelves is often the better long-term buy. See also lockers for hybrid teams.