Maximise your Office Space the efficient and affordable way

Maximise your Office Space the Efficient and Affordable Way

Growing your business can come with pain and top of that list of most business owners lists is moving to a new premises. Moving to a new premise can be disruptive and costly to the business. Worst of all, a messy and disorganized moving operation can cost service disruption leading to negative word of mouth and leaving the reputation of a company in a bad name. 

Perhaps if the move to a larger office can be put off, it would not be such a bad idea. Here are some top tips you may wish to know or at least think about it before you made the big decision to move your office.

• Stack it high
  

Are you keeping hard copy of paperwork? If you insist of keeping hard copy paperwork instead of soft copy, then a great way of storing such items are by storing them in a high-rise storage devices, such as cupboards. This is great because you would be maximizing space that you would otherwise not be using.

• Make use of dead space
  

Before making use of tall storage units, one other option is look out for those dead space. What are dead space? Dead space can be found usually under the desks, the space that would not be used anyway. Is there spaces under the working desk or a corner or wall that is unused? Can they be utilized? 

• De-clutter
  

How often you clear your desk or cupboards? When was the last time you clear those paperwork, documents, or unused stationery? Unless those are business critical information otherwise clear them out. Why not just make online backups or have a cloud storage? Otherwise, if possible discard those things that you have not been using for the past 1 year. Make it a habit to clear or de-clutter at least twice a year to free up valuable space. A neat and de-cluttered office environment provides better working conditions that may translate to better productivity, higher efficiency and higher moral. 
   

• Flexible working hours
  

Interestingly flexible working hours has become increasingly more popular with modern business set up. If possible at least create a flexible work earlier or later shift and create mobile work station when ever possible. This free up valuable space that is otherwise not been utilized. For example if we know an executive has to spend a lot of time in the meeting room or production areas instead of letting them have a permanent work station, why not create a shared working area so that an empty work station can be utilized by other colleagues, maximizing the use of space. 

• Office Extension
  

Plan ahead. If you have already squeezed out very inch of your current office space, you may want to be able to have an office extension just beside, or above your current business location. Perhaps this is possible?

Conclusion
Ready to move? Still pondering if that is really necessary? Try the above, alternatively look around for office furniture that offer very helpful storage systems. We will share pictures of some innovative storage systems in our blog at a later date.


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