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Top Ways to Keep your Home Office Organized
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If you work from home, one of the largest challenges is keeping a home office organized. It can be very easy to let your home life bleed into your work life. Distractions can cause lower productivity, which can hurt your business and your bottom line. It's easy to keep your home office organized, if you put a little effort into it. Here's a few good tips:


Take Care of Piles

One of the biggest barriers to productivity is clutter. Have you noticed piles of papers, books, magazines, or other work-related items stacking up on your desk? Taking care of those piles can go a long way to improving your productivity and, more importantly, your state of mind.

Organize and Throw Away Old Papers

This goes along with taking care of piles. When you go through a stack of papers, how many of them do you actually need? Sort them into three piles -- Active use, Archival and Garbage. Throw away the garbage pile and put the archival pile into storage somewhere. That way you can drastically cut down on your clutter.

Keep Frequent Use Items On Hand and Extra Supplies Elsewhere

This one is a little common sense but requires some extra furniture. You should have a storage space set aside in a closet to store your extra supplies, such as reams of paper, extra pens and other loose items. Conversely, you should keep anything you use frequently on hand. The last thing you want to do is dig through piles searching for a pen when you could be working.

Keep Business and Pleasure Separate

This one is extra important. You need an area set aside for your home office. Whether it's a whole extra room or just a nook in the corner of your bedroom doesn't matter. The benefits are amazing. You can focus without the added distractions and get even more work done. Not to mention you can list it on your taxes.

Clean Up Every Day

Once you've set up your space to be organized, take a few minutes at the end of every work session to put things away. File away archival papers, store extra items you may have taken out, and generally organize everything. If you keep up on it, it won't take more than a few minutes a day.

All of these tips apply equally to your computer. You don't need a dozen folders of documents you never use cluttering up your desktop any more than you need them on your desk. Keep the clutter to a minimum and reap the benefits to productivity.

 

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This article was written by Phill representing OfficeAllSorts.co.uk - a specialist supplier of office products and online stationery.

 

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