Before you do anything else, figure out if existing employees need more space. A simple change like offering employees a bit more room to do their jobs can be a benefit in a very competitive hiring environment and promote goodwill among your employees. Since many employees are reticent to return to crowded offices, acknowledging that by giving employees more room to breathe is sure to be a hit – and it helps slow or deter the spread of germs… whether they're from colds, flu, or COVID.
How Digitizing Can Help During a Recession
There are many factors in business ownership that we can’t control, and the world economy is one of them. Whenever even a single economist mentions a possible recession, it can be terrifying for business owners.
For many business owners the first reaction is denial. The second is to start cutting costs without thinking about whether those are “good costs” or “bad costs”.
Good costs are things that actively help your business thrive. Bad costs are expenses that you can probably do without. Advertising, for instance, is generally a good cost while paper and ink might be bad costs… but not always.
And denial? Well, that never helps anything.
Get Organized: Tips for Going Digital/Paperless
The decision to take your office paperless can be intimidating. Many people feel like they do better when they have paper everywhere: paper planners, paper to-do lists, paper reports.
But the reality is all that paper is just making you more inefficient, creating more work, and taking up space.
The Storage Quarters Advantage
The Storage Quarters Advantage Storage companies are popping up everywhere, so why should you choose Storage Quarters over the competition? Let’s start with the obvious. Storage Quarters has been here for 35 years, and we’re not going anywhere. That's longevity and experience you can count on.
5 Storage Tips and Benefits to Be Thankful For
Nine Organizing Hacks for Your Office This Fall
The change of seasons is a great time to clean and reorganize, especially in the fall when we naturally start to focus on the last months of the year and to be indoors. Whether the office you're organizing is one for a traditional business, a home office, or something in between, there's no such thing as being too organized or having too many tips, hacks, and tactics to be organized.
Best Home Office Filing Systems
Since the pandemic, many more Americans have discovered the joy of working from home. While ditching the commute is fantastic, it does have some downsides, like all the paperwork that is now in your home office.
For many people, carving out the extra space to have a place to work was hard enough. Now they want you to store those records, too. If you’re new to having a home office, or if your office just needs a little organizing help, we’re here to help you find a system that works for you and doesn’t mean you have even less living space.
Mobile Shredding: An Efficient Option for Today's Busy Business Owners
Mobile shredding is an efficient convenience many businesses use to remove old or irrelevant data that may still have sensitive or personal data attached to it. Instead of dealing with the logistical headache of transporting and tending to the destruction of your documents, mobile shredding services allow for your files to be dealt with at your location and securely handled while following HIPAA-compliant guidelines. Regardless of your business type, secure shredding is vital to protect your business and your clients from identity theft.
14 Self-Storage Packing & Organization Tips
Space is usually at a premium for both home and office, and it's getting worse as commercial and residential rental areas become more expensive. Fortunately, there are many options and tricks for maximizing your space, either doing what you can to efficiently store and pack your possessions, digitizing records, or renting out a self-storage space.
Importance of Time Management in the Workplace
If you are capable of managing your time in the workplace, you will find that you perform better and be less stressed, and have the opportunity to grow in your field. But good time management isn't always easy or intuitive, so finding the best time management tools and priority methods for your work and lifestyle is essential.
Why Environmentally Responsible Shredding Is So Important
Records and Storage Information Month
Starting in the U.S. in 1995 as National Records and Information Management Day, all of April has become an entire month, recognized internationally, for spring cleaning and reorganizing vital information records. It's a yearly reminder to look at your document and record management procedures and make adjustments to maintain security and efficiency.
Top Three Benefits of Digital Scanning Services
It’s tax season again, and many businesses, big and small alike, find themselves scrambling to ensure they have all the documents they need to get to their accountants, employees, and more. And while more and more businesses are going paperless, many companies are still holding out and sticking to paper or operating in a hybrid paper and digital office that are trying to handle the process in-house.
5 More Documents People Forget to Shred
To protect yourself from identity theft, shredding sensitive documents is essential, but there's more you should be shredding than what you probably think. We recently gave you a list of five items people forget to shred that can put them at risk for identity theft. Now we have five more things you should always shred.