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Make Your Office Work for You
You won’t be as productive or efficient if you're unhappy with your space.
Whether you work in a vast room or a cozy cubicle, what you do with it and how you feel about your office can affect your work. While you can’t change the space size, focusing on the layout and atmosphere are great ways to make your office a suitable space for you.
Functionality is crucial in any office, especially if you’re very busy and need to find items quickly. Once that’s been addressed, you can bring some of your flair into the equation. Adding your personal touches can make you feel more at home while at work and keep you feeling more peaceful.
Form Follows Function
What you do in your office — meeting clients, working on presentations, or countless other things — will dictate how you create your space and what you include in it. If your office isn’t conducive to your work, you’ll end up unproductive and unhappy. You can avoid that, though, by planning around what you do each day.
Make a list of the tasks you do in your office, and prioritize them by what you do the most. Set up your office to handle the most common tasks in the easiest possible way. Then, you can do what you need to do quickly and efficiently, letting you move on to the next job with ease.
