It’s Time to Spring Clean the Office
20th February 2012
By now, you should be well and truly back into the swing of work-mode after the Christmas festivities and the diversion of Valentine’s day. These cold days may be taking their toll on you but remember spring is just around the corner with its promise of daffodils and warmer days. To help get you in the spring-time mood, why not get one of the spring chores out of the way with a thorough office spring clean?
It doesn’t have to be time consuming and stressful, just take a few minutes each day over the next week to do the following tasks:
1 – Clean out your office trays. We all have ‘in’, ‘out’ and ‘to do’ trays on our desks that we’re sure you’ll agree get a little confused over the course of time and prioritising workloads. Take a little time to go through each tray. File anything that needs filing, put anything that needs to be passed on into someone else’s tray or re-prioritise your workload depending on what is left. You might be surprised to find things that are in your tray are no longer necessary so don’t require auctioning.
2 – Clean out your desk drawers. Take a minute to open each drawer of your desk and remove all the contents. Check what you are storing, whether you need it, whether it can be filed and then consider a purpose for each drawer. This is a great way to clear both your desk and your mind of clutter while giving you the opportunity to throw away those out of date soup sachets and other things you’re forgotten were in your desk.
3 – Go through your filing system – both paper and digital. No doubt your filing system will have grown considerably since you last had a clear out. Take a few minutes each day to go through one section of filing and make two distinct piles – one for archiving and one for destruction.
Once you have completed your spring cleaning, give Cube Records Management a call on 0800 027 2668 to arrange document destruction or to discuss our records management services.