Modular shelving will keep you organized.

When it comes to the papers and printed stuff in your office, do you file them up or pile them up? Whether you’re an executive or work-from-home mom, if there’s clutter surrounding you, it’s causing you stress even it you don’t realize it.

 

At the very least, all those mounds of paperwork are making you inefficient. When you have to sort through piles of papers, books or binders to find something just to do your job, you aren’t focusing on the important work at hand. You’re focusing on getting through a mountain of stuff.

 

Work Your Way up the Wall

 

If your office is in serious need of organizing, start at the bottom and work your way up. The easiest way to do that is to make use of your vertical space in addition to your square footage, especially if you don’t have a big area to start with. Using modular storage unit shelving makes it easy to pile up to your heart’s content, but in an organized way.

 

What is Modular Shelving?

 

Modular shelving is made from separate pieces that come in different sizes and shapes. They’re fitted together in a myriad of ways to create your own customized configuration. You can put open shelves of varying lengths with closed cabinetry, square cubes, drawers and rounded corners.

 

These configurations give you the flexibility you just can’t get from a regular bookcase or shelf. You can create a perfectly designed storage unit to fit your space and current needs. Then, as your needs change, you can conveniently add more modules or levels to expand your shelves, thereby an unlimited number of combinations. 

 

Additionally, modular shelves, and especially cubes, are lighter weight than traditional shelving. They’re durable and made to stand up to reconfiguring, scratches and moisture.

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Organize Like a Professional

 

Whether you’re starting a new business or have an established office full of disorganized clutter, modular storage unit shelving will give you the room to move that clutter off your desk and onto the shelves where it belongs. When there isn’t a lot of room, installing the right pieces is very important so you can work efficiently.

 

After your shelving unit is in place, use it to store those items covering your desk and other surfaces that you don’t need right in front of you all the time. Your desk should have white space to it, meaning that you’re able to view surface area between objects like the phone, computer, hot files and in-basket. You should be able to write freely on the desk surface and not on a stack of files. That’s why file storage and shelving are essential.

 

Put all those things you use infrequently onto your shelves, such as:

 

— binders full of reference material, but only if you don’t refer to them everyday. If you do have reference materials you look at each day, place them on or above your desk close at hand;

— books;

— extra office supplies;

— all the decorative items that shouldn’t have been taking up so much space on your desk in the first place;

— extra CDs, DVDs and other computer media and supplies that aren’t used every day

 

It’s pretty easy to organize your stuff if you take a hard line against keeping things and papers you don’t need. Once you get your office organized, keeping up with the clutter by finding a home for everything, even if home is the trash can, will reduce the chaos around you during the work day.

 

Taking away the visual clutter and organizing it into manageable piles prevents you from becoming distracted from your actual work. You will become more productive and make a better impression on your co-workers, clients and employees. You’ll also know where to find your phone in a hurry.