Disorganization in the Workplace
By Diane Albright CPO, Organizing Expert and Speaker
November 10th, 2010
According to a recent survey by Brother International, an estimated 178 billion dollars is lost due to disorganization in the workplace. The results showed that an average office worker waste 76 hours per year (almost 2 weeks) looking for lost items or files. Can you imagine walking around for 2 weeks just looking for things let alone the financial loss to your company?
If an average office worker’s salary is $52,000 a year that means roughly 2,000 dollars is lost per employee annually due to disorganization in the workplace. If the company employees 100 people the company’s financial loss is approximately $200,000 per year. If the average salary of a company is $75,000 with a workforce of 100 people, the annual dollars lost due to disorganization is close to $300,000. To find out how much disorganization is costing your company, visit ptouchmeansbusiness.com.
Do you have troubling staying organized? Perhaps you need to see the forest instead of the trees when setting up your organizational system.
To see the forest means to see the big picture or in other words see the process from start to finish. Questions you should be asking yourself are, “Who will need to access items in the newly organized area? What do I need to do so I and others can easily locate items? How can I increase the likelihood that the items will be put back in their designated place? Do I need to leave room for growth, and if so, how much?
If you would like to be more productive and organized in the workplace, consider the following tips for:
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