As the ongoing pandemic is still affecting our day-to-day lives, many of us find ourselves working from our home offices. Whether your home office is a work area in the corner of another room or its own dedicated room, the key to getting your work done as efficiently as working on-site is keeping your workspace organized. But what’s the best way to keep things organized at home?
How Do You Organize Your Home Office?
Organizing your home office can be more involved than you think, but once you have the organization in place it’s a real time saver. Some great home office ideas include setting up a mail station where you keep your incoming and outgoing mail organized in separate folders or bins, clearly labeling your desk drawers and cabinets for contents and strictly adhering to those labels, and optimizing the wall space an arm’s length in front of and around your desk to hang things like a cork board, dry erase board, or calendar for easy access and to help you keep important notes from getting lost in the shuffle. Implementing these features into your home office organization will help reduce your day-to-day stress as well just by having what you need easily accessible.
How Do You Declutter Your Home Office?
The modern home office is moving toward being paper free, or as paper free as they’re able to be. Even if you started moving towards a paperless office in the past year or so, you may still have boxes and boxes of documents taking up space in your home. Some of those documents may be a year or so old, and if you end up needing them you could potentially lose hours of your day going through boxes to find what you need.
In order to declutter your home office, you’ll need to digitize the documents you need. Scanning documents can take time, and shredding them adds even more time to it. If you have a home office with sensitive documents that need to be protected, you’ll want to reach out to professionals to handle your sensitive documents with care.
What to Shred And What’s Safe To Throw Away?
If you’re unsure whether or not you should be shredding something, chances are you should be shredding it. If the document in question has account numbers, pin numbers, passwords, signatures, and similarly sensitive information you’re going to need to shred it. Junk mail, paperwork without your or another party’s information attached, and receipts without banking information or signatures attached should be safe to throw away.
Mobile Shredding Will Organize and Modernize Your Home Office
Storage Quarters are the leaders in the New York City area’s storage industry, including document scanning and shredding. Utilizing our mobile shredding services means we come to your location and securely remove your documents for destruction. You can schedule weekly, monthly, or yearly visits depending on your needs. We can even help you transition to a paperless office with our digitizing services. Getting a secure and organized home office is an email or phone call away. Contact us for a free quote today.