Productivity Bits
JUNE 20, 2017
We’ve all been there: Keeping and storing documents that we deemed important throughout the years only to walk into the home office space one day and see a mountain of papers staring back. This can be magnified ten-fold if you work from home. Creating a paperless home office is a two-part process.
Ian's Messy Desk
MARCH 29, 2011
million Canadians who work from home or maintain a home office, this area should be of special consideration. Documents piled up? File and organize: Once you’ve decided on what papers you will keep, set up a filing system that will be easy for you to follow. “Go Through Your Files and Purge Them!
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Allwork
JUNE 30, 2023
While the dust from the 2023 tax filing season has long since settled, if you are a freelance worker, independent contractor , or digital nomad, now isn’t the time to forget about your taxes. While celebrating U.S. Part of that process starts with taking notes on how you work, for how many hours, and from where.
Small Business CEO
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
Working at home doesn’t mean that you need to work in a “homely” office. As home-based businesses become more and more popular, the home office environment becomes more important. If your home office is set up like your living room or is actually located in the living room, forget about it.
Ian's Messy Desk
JANUARY 15, 2014
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.
Clutter Coach
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
A client hired me recently to help her organize her home office. We were on the same page with going through papers and filing. We created folders for projects and one for her urgent to do’s, which she’d been collecting on scraps of paper, or using documents to remind her of them. Here’s an example.
Step It Up VA Coaching
MARCH 24, 2011
Time to make a clean sweep of your office, your business systems, and even your mind! As a Virtual Assistant, you likely work from a home office. Chances are, your clients are all over the country (or the globe), and will never come to your office for a meeting. Clean out your file cabinet. Update your databases.
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