Thursday, March 6, 2008

Don't Worry, Be Organized!

Do you have piles of paper all over your desk? What about the office floor? How good are you at keeping piles? And now ..... the killer question: How quickly can you find a document when you need it?

I read recently that the average person spends about an hour a day looking for stuff.  If your time is worth $200 an hour and you spend just 20 hours a month looking for stuff, that works out to $48000 a year! What could you do with that 20 extra hours a month, or the extra money. I know I could put it to more productive use!!

So think about how you might be able to systemize your piles of paper - perhaps a filing cabinet or two with a clear and easy system for filing and retrieving documents and referencing them from a central database. Worth spending some time on - after all, the return is 20 hours every month or $48000 every year!

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