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How to Avoid Office Clutter

Avoiding office clutter and mess is important for number of reasons and should not be taken lightly.

Consider how you feel whenever you visit someone else’s offices and the impression that the visual appearance makes. If an office space is littered with papers and looks generally disorganised, on either a conscious or sub-conscious level, clients are likely to link this with your company and form an impression that you’re disorganised and inefficient.

Hygiene is also an important consideration, for both health and legal reasons. A cluttered, messy office is impossible to clean as effectively as an ordered, tidy workplace and germs and bacteria could breed. There were even reports in UK newspapers of a police officer finding a mouse nest amongst a pile of desk paperwork!

Employers have a legal obligation to provide a safe working environment for staff. Disorganised work spaces can be a recipe for accidents and slips and trips and a major cause of injury in the workplace.  Read more...

Green Up Your Office and Save Money

Business owners are always looking to reduce waste. When coupled with a green initiative, employees are much more willing to be a part of the solution. Here are some simple steps to save some money.

Going green is not just the latest trend. Smart business owners have always looked to improve efficiencies and reduce waste. It improves your public image and make the CFO happy at the same time. Is it enough to recycle office paper? How much should we encourage car pooling? The key is to start small and build on those success to move on to bigger initiatives.

Here are five simple tips to help start you on the right path.

Create a Meaningful Paperless Plan.  Read more...

How To Keep Your Office Cool In Summer

The worst thing ever is to be stuck in a hot office all summer long, especially when you would rather be anywhere else that is nice and cool, like the park or down to the ocean. Here are some great tips to keep your office cool during the long summer months when you have to stay inside.

Get a desk fan to put on your desk. Some of them just clip on and plug in to your main power supply so that a nice breeze is generated while you are sitting at your desk. This is nice if you have to share a cubicle area where there are a lot of people sharing a small space. Some of these desk fans can be plugged into a USB as well if you don’t have a power supply available to you.  Read more...

Office removals, London need a professional touch

Moving a modern office to a new facility needs the services of an office removals, London, specialist. Most offices are chock full of delicate electronic equipment like desktop computers, printers copiers and fax machines. This equipment is expensive and must be handled with care to avoid damage and costly replacement or repairs. Moving office equipment takes someone with specialized knowledge in moving electronics.

Anyone can move desks and paper files but electronics require special care. Some cannot be turned on their sides and none of the equipment can be bumped or bounced around. A removal company, London which specializes in office removals, London can give your equipment the care and handling it needs to make it to the new destination in perfect condition. You want your office to be up and running as soon as possible and professional office removals, London will save you time and money.  Read more...

Manager’s Checklist for Transitioning to a Paperless Office

Most managers who are converting to a ‘less paper’ office — or even a paperless office — are aware of the benefits. In terms of accessing information, operating efficiently, and providing top-notch service, digital storage — especially with a Web-based system that enables 24/7 remote access via a browser — is light years ahead of paper and mixed media. For organizations challenged with cumbersome regulations and frequent audits, electronic storage also offers clear audit trails paper can’t match.

Are you just starting down the path to digital storage? Looking to replace a simple system with something better or more robust? Ready to march forward with full automation of routine business processes? Regardless of what’s driving you toward change, this checklist may help you avoid common pitfalls.

I. Finding a project champion and establishing vision  Read more...

Document Management – The intelligent route towards a “green” office

We hear the word “green” used a lot these days but how many of us really try to implement it in our daily lives other than separating the glass from tin, from cardboard come refuse day?

The “green” office is an even more elusive holy grail and the biggest contributor to what has become the absolute antithesis of a “green” office is the vast amount of documentation that we all produce each and every day. Walk into any office regardless of size in any town across the country and its impossible not to see evidence of it everywhere.

Very large producers of paperwork, (who would otherwise eventually run out of space to put people!), send their archive paperwork to one of the many warehouse storage businesses who specialise in physical document storage… Sadly all that’s happened here is the problem has been transported off-site but with the added knock on effect of creating an even bigger “less-green”! carbon footprint with the requirement for lorries and forklift trucks etc.  Read more...