Organize Your Home Office Day
So many things go into creating an organized home office — whether you work from home or just use it for running your household. PAPER management — you can’t pay bills or write a report or make phone calls wtih a huge pile staring you in the face. Office LAYOUT — how can you get any work done when you have to bend, stretch, and walk all the way across the room to get at your supplies and equipment? And ERGONOMICS — it’s difficult to be efficient when your neck and back are killing you because of a poorly positioned desk or chair. So this month, let’s spend a minute on a few suggestions for getting your home office in order.
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Some Practical Organizing Tips… |
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Is your furniture and equipment appropriate to the kind of work you do? Do you have enough room for your supplies and equipment — to spread out? Do have enough file space for your paperwork? Don’t settle for a non-functional work ENVIRONMENT.
Set up 3 kinds of STORAGE. Fingertip items should be within arms reach of your desk. Active items are used regularly but not daily — store a bit further away. Archive items are rarely needed and should be stored away from your active work area.
Create a paper management center for storing “to-do’s” until you can do them. Make a decision about what step you need to take to clear up each piece of paper and store it in a file for that ACTION — “to pay”, “to call”, etc. Then empty once a week.