Not enough time is spent cleaning up the clutter that is your workspace. You never seem to find that one document that you urgently need or the keys to the file cabinet or your phone charger. And yet, it’s taking up huge chunks of your day!
If you’re spending a good part of your day trying to cruise through the chaos of your workplace, it’s going to show sooner or later and you’re likely to land into trouble. Our advice is to get working on cleaning it up once and for all – well, as long as you understand it’s going to need some keeping up.
Start afresh
Get rid of anything you no longer require. Things that you used to need or might require in the future should be filed separately and stored away. To effectively organize or reorganize your stuff, you need to get rid of everything that is not currently necessary.
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Rearrange
Now that you’re rid of all that is unnecessary, it’s time to find solutions for the rest of the problems. Maybe you’ve become complacent with how things are because it’s been going on for too long. A quick and easy way to get your organizational instincts kick in is to rearrange everything to make it easier and quicker to access.
Learn to manage time
Disorganization could just be a symptom of a more common affliction – time mismanagement. One of the simplest and most effective ways to overcome this is to jot down everything you need to accomplish in a day – a to-do list – and assign each task the time it requires while making sure that you do not exceed it. Adhere to this pattern till you break the habit of miscalculating your priorities at work.
Organize digitally
The condition of your digital desktop, email and social media is a reflection of your organizational skills, or lack thereof. Remedying only one could become a hurdle in the rehabilitation of your habits. If you want to keep up the organization of your workspace, let the organization spread to other parts of your life that ask for it. Organize your digital desktop by getting rid of all that is unnecessary, much like you did with your physical desktop.
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Get the right accessories
A big part of how you organize is what tools you use on a daily basis. A wrong filing system could breakdown your whole work ethic. Get the right filing cabinet, the right size desk (a height-adjustable or standing desk, if that suits you), an ergonomic chair and see the difference yourself. It’s alright to ask for things you need. Letting their absence hinder your work is not.
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Managing the limited space at your workplace to accommodate all that is required of your employees, coworkers and you is a requisite to developing an enhanced work culture. It also helps to have the freedom to customize your workspace according to your needs and task gratification. Working in an open office environment, however, brings down the factor of personalization than say working from your home.
Most of us are accustomed to an extremely high level of customizability at home, placing and replacing every little thing to our desire and comfort. This is not the case with the workplace. Not much is in our control. But our needs remain the same…
Many workplaces have identified this anomaly and tried to rectify it in their own ways by adding accessories that have customizations built in. Furniture is the most important tool for workspace customization and objects like height-adjustable desks satisfy the much-needed desire for personalization.
Below are some of the most convenient ways to manage and personalize your workspace.
Height-adjustable desks
In the midst of all the hullaballoo concerning the ill effects of sitting at your desk all day, standing desks have found eternal haven in workplaces around the world. But you can’t stand all day, can you? That can’t be ideal. If you’ve held long discussions over migrating your workstation to a standing desk, you might be worried about coming across as a prima donna when and if you crave for a sitting position and migrating your workstation between standing and sitting environments is not exactly convenient. Enter, height-adjustable desks. Not only do they allow for more flexibility in your work patterns but they also provide a good amount of storage beneath. If you’re feeling extra paranoid today, you might sneak your beanbag chair underneath and work from within the confines your newfound kingdom.
Stools and auxiliary chairs
Movable furniture like stools and chairs enhances means of group effort and promotes collaboration. Having some power over the distribution of furniture, moreover, provides a sense of relief and accommodation required for collaboration – a necessity for workplaces that endeavor to achieve novel goals. This also enables employees to start learning from each other.
Screens and partitions
An open office design can be a huge distraction. Depending on how each individual employee functions best, your office may need more collaboration or seclusion. It’s true that an open office design is more collaborative, and communication is no hurdle. However, there are tasks and people that work best with a lack of distraction. Screens and partitions provide the necessary compartmentalization as and when required. Movable partitions work best with an overall functional and dynamic work environment providing the most accessible and effective means of workspace personalization.
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Looking for a shortcut to deciphering someone’s personality? Want to know what your work colleagues are really like? take a look at their desk space. According to Lily Bernheimer, author of a book on environmental psychology, the way your desk looks gives away an awful lot of information about your inner life.
In the following article by Adam Boult, he explains in detail what information can be gathered from a person’s workspace. Here’re five identifiable ‘types’.
The state of your office desk can reveal lot about your personality
Lily was recently commissioned by Headspace Group to produce an “evidence-based breakdown” of what information can be gathered from a person’s workspace.
She identified five identifiable ‘types’. Do they ring true for you?
Clutterer
“Cluttered, chaotic, colorful: this is the desk of an extrovert. Extroverts are excitement seekers and get easily bored without stimulation so they like to surround themselves with bright lights, materials and knickknacks related to their many activities, and warm, saturated colours like red. They have a high need for social interaction, and less need for personal space, so you may find their desk at the circulation crossroads where they can catch people passing by. Extroverts tend to be assertive, cheerful, and above all, friendly. Notice a welcoming extra chair, or candy bowl? These features invite people in to stop and chat. But with their days so busy, extraverts often don’t have enough time to tidy up! While you might think that a cluttered workspace would scare people away, a controlled amount of clutter is actually more inviting than either a sparse space or an overstuffed one.” See full post here:
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Prolonged sitting combined with little exercise is detrimental to your health – so much that people have started equating sitting with smoking. The health consequences related to sitting are no less dangerous. On an average, a person with a desk job spends between 8 to 12 hours every day sitting, resulting in a lower metabolic rate, cardiac issues and increased stress.
Rachel Bindl from National Business Furniture compares the health impacts of sitting and standing at work. Here is the culmination
So how do sitting and standing compare?
Sitting:
Causes forward head position which creates pressure and muscle tightness that can lead to headaches.
Creates rounded back preventing proper spine support.
Increases chances of carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, tendinitis, varicose veins and blood clots.
Causes your body to burn less energy and to utilize less blood sugar in your body.
Causes electrical activity in the muscles to take a dip.
Enzyme productivity drops by 90% which increases your risk for heart disease
Standing:
Joints to be in more appropriate positions which results in better blood flow to the legs and to the hips.
Activates core, arm and leg muscles and improves back health.
Creates more desirable blood sugar and blood pressure levels.
Ramps up metabolism by breaking down sugars and fats more quickly.
Increases oxygen levels for improved concentration.
Burns three times as many calories as sitting, aiding in weight loss.
All of the above can be very disconcerting if you are one of the many Americans who sit for extended periods of time while at work. Don’t panic. Even a little bit of standing throughout your day can go a long way. According to Designer and Ergonomic Specialist, Mari-ann Carlson, “Alternating between sitting and standing is important as too much of either position can be stressful for your body. Aim to stand and move every 20 minutes.”
Here are five ways to easily incorporate standing into your work day:
Add height-adjustable computer accessories to a desktop.
Adjustable-height tables for conference rooms and meeting rooms.
Instead of replacing your current desk, add a matching standing table.
Add an all-in-one option, like a Sit-Stand Workstation.
Consider adding a standing work island in a common area so everyone can take a stand for their health.
The benefits of standing at work surpass individual health and express themselves in increased revenue. That is right! A healthy employee works about twice as hard and enjoys their work at the same time leading to an increase in productivity and gross contribution.
Watch doctor of therapy and mobility expert Kelly Starrett explain how standing desks at the workplace are a boon to all
Now finally here is a formal news report by Matthew Gutierrez from Star Tribune on the negative impacts of prolonged sitting at the workplace and how to rectify it
You may want to stand up while you read this: Studies show Americans sit on average between eight and 12 hours a day. Many sit in the car on the way to work. We sit in our chairs at our desks. We sit down to eat lunch. We sit through office meetings. Then we sit during our evening commute. At the end of the day, we sit while eating dinner, watching TV and surfing the web.
Even for those who exercise an hour or two every day, prolonged sitting has been associated with heart disease, low metabolism and something that researchers are calling “dormant butt syndrome,” a tightness of the hip flexors and weakness of the gluteal muscles.
Chris Kolba, a physical therapist at Ohio State University, coined the term for a condition that can be a result of sitting throughout the day. A May study published by Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center found DBS may be the cause of knee, back and hip pain.
Yet many of us sit, sit and sit.
“We were put on this Earth to be hunters and gatherers,” said Ron DeAngelo, director of sports performance training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Rooney Sports Complex in Pittsburgh. “But now we’re hunters and gatherers of information on a computer.”
When DeAngelo first meets with patients, he’ll often ask them what they do for a living and how much they sit. “If your butt is not in the game” and you’re sitting down, he said, other parts of your body have to work harder, which can lead to injury.
While standing desks are nothing new — Charles Dickens, Thomas Jefferson and Donald Rumsfeld used them — they have gained popularity over the past decade. A few years ago, some considered standing desks weird. Now they are almost commonplace.
A 20-year history of studies show people who work at standing desk stations are about 10 percent more productive than those who sit.
For one year, Texas A&M researchers followed high school students who were given standing desks at their school and found an increase of about 10 percent in students’ cognitive improvement. Similarly, a Texas A&M study found employees in a call center who used standing desks for a six-month period were 46 percent more productive than colleagues who used standard desks.
Using a standing desk is one of the easiest ways to train yourself to stand more. They range from about $150 to $450 and can be picked up at major retailers such as Target, Office Depot and Bed Bath & Beyond.
It was not a particularly quick migration from traditional office desk and chair to standing desk for Frank Dawson, an associate vice president at the architectural firm Cannon Design in Pittsburgh.
“You have to sort of work yourself into it,” said Dawson, 48. “It’s not like, ‘Oh, yeah, this is the greatest thing ever,’ but after you do it, it’s not so bad.”
Software engineer Nick Tate of Container Ship, a cloud computing company in Pittsburgh, called the first couple of weeks an “initial adjustment period.” Three years removed, he stands about half of the time at work.
“Every half-hour or so, just remember to ask yourself, ‘How’s my posture?’ ” said Tate, 25.
Standing desks are especially beneficial for employees suffering from vascular and orthopaedic issues. Striking a balance between sitting and standing not only improves a person’s health but also enhances their abilities of cognition and acuity. Find a variety of high quality standard and height-adjustable standing desks and other office furniture at Vision Office Interiors. Choose from a carefully selected collection of new and used office furniture
