Tuesday 9 August 2011

How Should Your Office Work Area Be?


One should not be concerned that he does not have an office, but the thing concerning him should be to think how he may fit himself for an office.
One rule to be followed while discharging your duties to the office is to never do things which others can do for you.
Once you have made up your mind to start a new business and establish an office for yourself, get the right spot for it. It should be spacious enough for furniture, storage compartments and other equipments to be placed, along with good ventilation.
A work area for an employee is just not the desk but everything that surrounds him, like the chair, other equipments and furniture, filing cabinets and so on. It’s the responsibility of the employee to keep his or her work area tidy. An organized work area indicates that the user of it has a tidy mind, which impresses anyone who visits the workplace.
Some of the characteristics of an organized work area are as follows:-
  • It is kept clean
  • It is tidy.
  • The user of the work area should be well aware of the things being kept where and should find them quickly
  • The VDU should be set up correctly
  • The chair should be placed and adjusted according to the comfort of the user
  • The main test whether you work area is well organized or not is when the colleagues can also find files, documents and other important stuff without any hassle. Thus an organized work area is:
    1.Effective- The tasks to be done can be completed effectively in time. 2.Efficient- Since it ensures that money and time, both are not wasted.
    Efficiency- Its importance and Examples
    A working environment should be efficient enough so that it can cut down on wastage resulting in profit, and it also influences the effectiveness of the other members of the organization. Here are some examples-
  • All the resources should be kept within the reach
  • Completing the task in the given time
  • Resources must not be wasted
  • Keeping good care of the resources so that they last
  • At the end of the day the thing that counts is how well you have managed to deal with your work and the kind of impression have you left behind to your colleagues and the boss at your workplace. If you still are thriving for a perfect work area, just have belief in yourself and always remember that failure does not always mean that you have failed, it means that you have not succeeded yet.

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