Dry erase paint is quickly supplanting the traditional framed bulletin board as a communication tool in corporate headquarters and business offices around the world. The reasons are easy to understand. Dry erase wall paint more effectively supports team engagement, real-time collaboration, flexibility, space efficiency, and contemporary office design.

In this blog post, we’ll look at these and various other reasons office managers, company owners, workspace planners, HR departments, and operations teams should install dry erase paint in their workspaces. In this way, they can create vibrant, attractive communications centers that stimulate team members, inspire creativity, and provide dependable service for ten or more years of continuous use.

Unlike bulletin boards, dry erase paint supports real-time updates, flexible workflows, and continuous collaboration. While a cork bulletin board is good for displaying fixed or standard information that’s used or observed every day, it’s not useful for quick, impromptu brainstorming sessions where a team wants to be able to quickly post ideas and images for everyone to see and respond to, and then make changes in a continuing cycle.

Pinning up post-it notes or other pieces of paper on a bulletin board just doesn’t have the same effect as writing information and ideas down by hand on a large open surface like a dry erase wall. Handwriting has also been shown to stimulate the brain, helping ideas flow more freely and fostering creative thinking.

A dry erase painted wall offers a dynamic space for unlimited team interaction and collaboration. Brainstorming becomes a natural process when team members have access to a spacious, inviting dry erase canvas for recording their spur-of-the-moment inspirations and then getting instant feedback from colleagues.

If you have team members who are in the habit of collecting clutter, a cork bulletin board can be a disaster waiting to happen; simply transferring large, messy piles of paperwork from a desk to a wall-mounted board serves no practical purpose. When this is done, the board needs to be cleaned and organized periodically. That’s the only way to ensure it doesn’t become a clearinghouse for all the unclassifiable papers that stack up on people’s desks throughout the workday.

Bulletin boards also have an old-school look that may be dreary and unattractive to many viewers.  Their wood frames can be boring to look at repeatedly, and the cork itself can appear dull and unappealing, even when brand new.  The dark color of most bulletin boards also makes rooms look smaller and less welcoming.

A dry erase painted wall, on the other hand, provides a clean, modern-looking, paper-free, minimalist canvas for posting ideas and graphics without creating a mess. It inspires spontaneity and creative thinking with its fresh appearance and open-ended writing surface, which can accommodate a constant flow of ideas and graphics during brainstorming sessions or project development meetings.

 

3. Dry Erase Walls Support Agile and Flexible Workflows

An Agile workflow involves constantly conveying small pieces of work in so-called “sprints,” and receiving feedback as fast as possible; then, if any changes or updates need to be made, it’s easy to make them at the end of each sprint. Because they offer limited flexibility for posting and reposting work project information, bulletin boards are not practical in today’s Agile workflow environments.

Having to constantly deliver and update small segments of work in sprints is much easier with a wall coated in dry erase paint. Team members can move quickly and efficiently when managing changing priorities by using dry erase walls, which provide large spaces for teams to track and modify the flow of project ideas from conception to execution, thus ensuring that each phase is properly and promptly executed.

The vast surfaces of dry erase painted walls offer unobstructed, open-ended spaces for expressing ideas and images during meetings and in one-on-one interactions, a quality that contrasts sharply with the limited possibilities for communication and collaboration that bulletin boards provide, as they can only be used for posting notes and notices on stationary pieces of paper.

Also, since meetings today increasingly rely on PowerPoint or videoconferencing to convey content, dry erase painted walls can serve a whole different purpose that goes beyond writing. They can also act as broad, smooth projection screens for projecting presentations and videos during meetings. And, of course, this is impossible on cork bulletin boards due to their dark colors and uneven surfaces.

Dry erase painted walls also serve as ideal substitutes for cork bulletin boards because they avoid the problem of wear and tear caused by the constant insertion and removal of pins or tacks, which leads the boards to deteriorate over time.

After a period of use, it’s not uncommon to see cracks, holes, crumbling, and fading happening on a cork board’s surface. To fix holes and cracks, it is necessary to apply wood filler and then sand down the surface after the wood filler dries. Maintaining a dry erase painted wall, on the contrary, simply requires an occasional wipe down with a microfiber cloth moistened with water or an eco-friendly whiteboard cleaner.

Moreover, in busy offices or team eating areas, cork bulletin boards are susceptible to stains, spills, and mold growth. And the tacks used to post items on bulletin boards can be painful and harmful when they impale people’s feet or hands. Plus, tacks are small and easily lost, thus adding another ongoing maintenance cost to your office budget.

In contrast, dry-erase walls require no tacks, are extremely durable, are not prone to cracking, and are backed by a professional-grade ten-year warranty against deterioration. With normal use and periodic cleaning, they provide unbeatable long-term service as communication tools without the need for replacement.

In general, when managers or team members in offices or small businesses want everyone to know essential pieces of information, such as meeting times or work schedules, they use fixed sheets of paper and post them on a bulletin board for all to see. However, following this traditional procedure requires a lot of time, energy, and effort.

What’s more, because team members sometimes assume that no new data has been uploaded onto the board since they last checked, vital information is often overlooked and so team efficiency declines.

In addition, besides their potentially negative impact on company efficiency, bulletin boards are also problematic with respect to the environment. The large quantities of paper that organizations waste when using bulletin boards worsen deforestation and thus increase the vulnerability of the world’s forest lands.

Paper is used for presenting content on traditional bulletin boards, and because nowadays sustainability is being widely promoted, it’s obvious that purchasing paper that is only meant to be used once is extremely inefficient and unsustainable.

Unlike bulletin boards, which have a limited capacity to inspire team involvement and are environmentally damaging, dry erase painted walls naturally encourage lively team engagement due to their open, inviting nature, attractive appearance, and ease of use. They also eliminate the need to write content on paper, making them environmentally friendly.

In view of their many advantages over traditional cork bulletin boards in terms of functionality, ease of use, appearance, durability, and sustainability, dry erase painted walls are the modern, practical, and collaborative workspace solution for communication in businesses of all sizes.

If you are currently using a traditional bulletin board for office communications and want to learn more about ReMARKable Whiteboard Paint as an alternative, please get in touch with our customer care team at (800) 936-2159 for more information.

FAQ

Q: Why are offices replacing bulletin boards with dry erase paint?
A: Because dry erase paint enables real-time collaboration, reduces clutter, and provides a long-lasting, flexible communication surface.

Q: Is dry erase paint better than bulletin boards for modern offices?
A: Yes. Dry erase paint supports Agile workflows, requires less maintenance, and improves engagement compared to static bulletin boards.