Spring cleaning your work space for the New Year

With the New Year now underway, a new years worth of work will be piling up and as such, the clutter of the last years workload has now begun to outstay its welcome. Keeping your work space clean is a  crucial part of keeping your work on track. To this end, today we will be taking a look at some ways to have a spring clean and organise your space. A clean work space is a happy work space after all.

Zones

You should ask yourself, what do you need from your work space? When you have established what it is you need, you can begin this first step. Your duties will require different things and as such, its a good idea to keep certain areas of your work space dedicated to these duties. Supplies, archives, reference material, food & drink utilities should all be separated and given their own space. This method of creating zones is a way of making sure everything is where you need it, when you need it.

Trinkets

It's common for people to have personal items on their desks or shelves in their work place, be it small figurines, framed photographs or other such items. While its always good to keep some of these items around for a more personal work space, they can present the issue of clutter. Trinket items should be kept to around 6 inches in height as a maximum, this will help keep the space they take up to a minimum.

Do away with the catch all drawer

People have a tendency to have a draw where they throw all the odds and ends, this is a short term solution and unfortunately gets out of hand very quickly. At the start of this New Year, you should go through this draw and sort everything on a regularly basis, ideally every six weeks.

Keep your desktop tidy

Have a cluttered computer screen is just as bad as a cluttered desk. The simple way to get around this is to limit yourself to 2 icons, one for work and one for other. Within these folders you can organise however you want, but these two icons will help keep your desktop tidy.

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