How to Keep Your Office Organized

If you have a busy job and do not have much time to worry about organizing you might be interested in this article. Here are some easy steps you can follow to keep your office organized without cutting back on your work time.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• file cabinet or other paper organizer
• regular office supplies
• sorting tray

How to Keep Your Office Organized

1. 
   Doesn't organization look neat?

   Most offices have file cabinets for all the paperwork. You may too but don't have the time to file everything once it ends up on your desk. If you cannot file it right away, designate a tray just for things to be filed. At the end of every day, take the last ten minutes or however long it will take you to file everything in the tray.

2. Stay ahead of the game. If you have downtime every now and then, this is a great time to get ahead. Pre-stamp and pre-label return address envelopes.

3. If you do lots of mailing make labels in your down time. These will make it easier than having to write the address every time or looking up the address for that matter.

4. Keep a miscellaneous tray. If you end up with odd items on your desk put them in a designated tray. Just like the filing, take a certain time everyday at the end of the day to file these items away where they go. This way every morning your desk is clean and clutter free.

5. Keep things you use often close by. If you constantly find yourself getting up for paper, pens, envelopes, whatever the case may be, keep some in your desk somewhere. This will help minimize the time you're running all over the office looking for something.

Tips & Warnings

• If people have a habit of leaving stuff on your desk when you're away from it, send them all an email telling them what tray to put stuff in. This way things don't end up lost or in the wrong hands.
• Keep an appointment book. If you have to remember a million things at once, write it all down. Keep a book on your desk that you write everything you have to remember in.