Comfortable club furniture could be the ideal way to start informal 'code clubs' similar to those used by the government to help their staff develop their digital skills.
These have been a part of the government's digital strategy in recent months - even making it into the Cabinet Office's annual report for 2014 on Government Digital Strategy.
In the foreword to the document, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude wrote: "This has been a great year for digital government. It's been 12 months of getting things done.
"In our efforts to make government digital by default, one of our primary messages is that we will not leave anyone behind."
Part of this commitment to digital inclusion means making sure 25% of people who are not currently online have web access by 2016.
But it includes internal efforts to improve digital understanding - such as the 'code clubs' set up by the Cabinet Office and the Home Office.
Other initiatives include a 'digital curriculum' developed by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office that spans policy work, service transformation and communications.
All of these schemes might inspire private-sector employers to host code clubs and digital training days of their own - and club furniture could enable you to do so in a more relaxed and comfortable setting than the traditional office environment.
If you plan to run such initiatives as breakfast clubs or after-work clubs, and as unpaid overtime for your staff, then a comfortable setting is one way you can encourage them to give up their free time.
Good club furniture creates this feeling, whether in a social club setting, or simply a side room or office kitted out for relaxed discussion and training sessions.
These are tables and chairs designed for socialising around, so they should help to relax your employees and put them in a more talkative mood to encourage them to contribute to discussion and debate.
For a technical topic, such as digital inclusion, this may be an important way to make sure everybody joins in, even if they are uncertain on the subject.
But it's something you might want to try with training across the board - perhaps even arranging a partnership with a local social club to use their premises, if you are short on space of your own.