Home Office Disorder
Keeping up with an orderly officeIn a recent poll at Organized-Living.com, the home office was voted as the #1 "most difficult area at home to keep organized."
Here are the results of this poll taken by 100 individuals:
30.5% - home office
18.6% - kitchen
16.9% - bedroom
6.8% - garage
6.8% - living room
5.1% - kid's room
5.1% - attic / basement
5.1% - bathroom
3.4% - den / family room
1.7% - dining room
I really wasn't surprised by the poll results. The home office typically deals with more daily activities and longer hours spent in than any other area of a home. After all, this is the place where the work involves paper ... lots of it ... and keeping up with it can be challenging, even with paper-flow systems in place. Without paper-flow systems however, the area (and work) can be overwhelming.
In one of my articles "Managing Paperwork," it describes implementing a paper-flow system to manage the flow of paper and work.
"A system needs to be in place to handle the flow of paper so that it flows in and flows out. Imagine a traffic cop who allows cars to come into an intersection but doesn’t allow them to leave it once they’ve arrived. A pile-up occurs and the flow of cars stop with a jammed up intersection."In a related article "Paper Management," it talks about the steps to manage paper.
"The management of your paper flow means getting rid of any paper stacks and handling each piece so you know what you have to deal with and how to find something easily and fast. Everything should have a "home," meaning there is a place for it. The piles may initially appear like it would take weeks, even months, to sort through, but they won't."You can find other related and helpful articles on managing work at www.organized-living.com/articles.
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