Use Your Space & Conquer Office Workflow: Where do I Put My Desk? -- www.OnlineOrganizing.com

You Are Here: Home - Blogs

NEW! - Keywords For This Page: Small Business - Desks

Blog: Use Your Space & Conquer Office Workflow
Where do I Put My Desk?

The most common desk placement is also the least helpful in getting organized. Most people place their desk facing the wall, but this provides two challenges:

Very few people are inspired looking at a wall all day. If you don't enjoy sitting at your desk, it is hard to keep it organized
It is difficult to make use of the space at your back, behind your chair

If you place your desk perpendicular to the wall (e.g., at a right angle), and ideally 5 feet from the corner of the room, you will be able to:

Sit at your desk and look out into the room
Have enough room behind your chair for a file cabinet to sit against the wall
Have enough room behind your chair for a bookshelf to sit against the wall

Your goal is to have "command central" where you can access the files and reference materials you need without getting out of your swivel chair. If it is not easy and convenient to immediately file papers, we just don't do it. We need convenience.

We all need an organized office that allows us to be efficient, so we can focus on the most important aspects of our jobs and careers.

Ciao'

posted on: 2/25/2008 8:30:00 AM by Heather Cocozza
category: Business

Use Your Space & Conquer Office Workflow: < Previous Post - Next Post >
Blog Central: < Previous Post - Next Post >

Discuss This Post

There are no comments.

Add a comment about this post:

Name:

Comment:

(Note: To reduce blogspam, HTML tags are not permitted in blog comments and will be removed)

Please Enter The Following Code:
In order to cut down on SPAM, we ask that you enter the code exactly as shown in image below. If you can't read the code, simply select "Load New Code" and a different graphic will appear. Cookies must be enabled on your web browser.

Code Image - Please contact webmaster if you have problems seeing this image code

Load New Code

Use Your Space & Conquer Office Workflow

by Heather Cocozza

View This Blog

Subscribe To This Blog

About Heather:

Heather Cocozza, PMP, CPO® is a Professional Organizer who organizes and designs tailored home and office solutions. She is on the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO)-WDC Board of Directors 2009-2010 and is the owner of Cocozza Organizing & Design, LLC. Prior to her organizing career, Heather Cocozza worked 13 years at IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers as an ERP Project Manager and at times traveled extensively while her "virtual" twins were between the ages of 0 to 3.

Heather's Website:

CocozzaOrgDesign.com

Great Songs

"Takin' Care of Business" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Do Ya - Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
I Got a Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive
Give a Little Bit - Goo Goo Dolls