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Eight Ways to Keep Your Office Clutter-Free

Ian's Messy Desk

When the HVAC system was installed, someone thought we might want the user manual for the system: a 400 page PDF document. Instead of filing the PDF on the network, the document was printed and placed in a filing cabinet , where it will sit until doomsday. I can print any web page to pdf and store it on the drive. DELEGATE IT.

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Eight Ways to Eliminate Paper and Clutter in Your Office

Ian's Messy Desk

When the HVAC system was installed, someone thought we might want the user manual for the system: a 400 page PDF document. Instead of filing the PDF on the network, the document was printed and placed in a filing cabinet , where it will sit until doomsday or at least until someone cleans out those files. DELEGATE IT. It adds up.

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Adhering to the "Open Door" Policy

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Adhering to the "Open Door" Policy By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , Prioritize I n my last job, I had my own office. Just remember, if your company has an “open door” policy, please adhere to it.

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Easy Ideas For A Greener Office

Eco-Office Gals

You can also try printing in draft mode and a smaller font for internal documents, buying chlorine-free paper, avoid colour printing, PDF your policies and handbooks and host them online or on the company servers rather than keeping print copies and shred and reuse unwanted documents as packing material.

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Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving

Professional Assistant Blog

What would happen if your company gets audited or your manager asks you for an e-mail from a few years ago? The reason I use the latter method is because our company policy is that we cant download any software that IT doesnt approve. There are two ways of backing up your e-mails.

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Three Tips - Preparing for Economic Recovery

Small Business CEO

If you haven’t yet taken advantage of the slower business cycle to make the day-to-day processes in your company more efficient, start now. Do you lack the bench strength and infrastructure to support significant customer and revenue growth? Here are three tips for getting your house in order now: 1. Assess your IT function.

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Who Called? Use A Phone Call Log!

Professional Assistant Blog

You can purge the files as needed, depending on your companys situation and/or policy. Also, remember to archive these files, just in case you need to go back and check who called when for what reason. So try creating a spreadsheet yourself and let me know how it works out for you.

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