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Do you spend time each day standing waiting while your tea or coffee brews? Is your desk covered with papers you don’t need today? Do you spend time each day sitting waiting for your computer to respond or for a document to print? Are your emails building up in your in box? If you answered…
read more »You mean you don’t have to keep your paper records forever?
No you don’t – but you do need to keep some records for certain periods of time – by law. It can be a bit daunting as you see the piles of paper building up and wonder where you’re going to store it all year after year. I know one business where the records are…
read more »Feral paper in your office
Has paper gone feral in your office? You know what I mean, piles of papers on your desk, more on the floor, paper everywhere in fact. It used to be organised and filed once, but then you got busy. Now you’ve forgotten how you used to organise your paper files and you’ve started storing some…
read more »Selling your house? Give your home office a makeover first
Friends of mine moved house recently and I caught up with them in week two in their new home. By then most of their life was sorted and everything had a place in the kitchen, garden tools were stored neatly in the garden shed, the linen was neatly stacked in a hall cupboard and the…
read more »Paper or electronic filing – or both?
Do you store your business information in paper format or in electronic formats? Or both? Do you remember the logic behind your decision about what to file where and in want format? How do you decide what to do with incoming items? It can be very confusing when you start to think about a filing…
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