Office Organization
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Monday, January 7th, 2008I’m a journalist by trade, so I have access to boundless news on the latest technology and trends out there for organizing my home office, small business and household in general. But I also have developed a pretty keen nose for news — and have learned to ferret out tidbits of information that may lead either […]
Placing value on a home office makeover
Sunday, November 25th, 2007Back in 1994, when our middle child was coming along, the Zbar home office was about to get booted — again — from a bedroom. This time, we converted part of the patio into a home office. Along with that conversion, I paid about $1000 for a custom-built desk designed to my specifications. That piece of […]
A crisp breeze in the home office
Sunday, November 18th, 2007‘Winter Lite’ has officially arrived in South Florida. Our first cold snap, OK, maybe it was our first not-so-oppressively-hot-day-of-the-season has arrived. I opened the sliding glass doors and my home office window - and felt a cool breeze waft through the home office. Try that in the corporate tower downtown. Even if you’re a teleworker, working […]
One man’s trash…
Monday, November 12th, 2007Reading Christina’s blog from yesterday - as well as hearing the tales of wildfire survivors - got me to thinking about what’s important in my household. With a wife, three kids and a dog, we certainly have a few possessions that register as “important.” But considering that my office is in my home, should anything from that space rank higher […]
Organizational redesign, in progress…
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007After 19 years of working from home and writing about smart home offices, you’d think I could knock out a spiffy home office make-over in short order. That’s just not the case. It seems that that same longevity in the SOHO (Small Or Home Office) space has led to several issues that make a redesign challenging. […]
Time for an organizational redesign…
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I’ve worked from my current home office for the better part of 11 years. From the beginning, organization was important - nay, critical - to my success. I have a 10-foot-long, custom-built desk with lots of drawer and cabinet space. It has a wirechase to conceal Ethernet, printer and phone cords and cables, and an […]
“Take a look at my desktop…”
Thursday, October 18th, 2007“Take a look at my desktop, it’s the only one I got…Not much of a desktop, used to seem to have a lot…” OK, so Supertramp would be aghast at my adaptation of their 1970s hit Breakfast in America (though no worse so than the current remake by Gym Class Heroes, I imagine). […]
Shredding My Docs
Monday, September 24th, 2007OK, I’m going to come clean - right here, right now. I’m can be a paper pack rat. For someone who dwells in the digital domain, I stash a ton of paper in my home office. I have a four-drawer file cabinet stuffed with thousands of documents dating as far back as the previous millennium. […]
Space. A Final Frontier
Thursday, September 13th, 2007When I created my first home office back in 1989, my desk became the repository for all things clerical. Papers, files, folders, my phone and Apple IIc computer all shared space atop a folding banquet table. I had a small file cabinet I’d kept from my college days that served as my drawers, and a […]
Bullied By Your Boss?
Monday, September 10th, 2007On CNN this morning I was surprised to hear a story on bosses bullying their employees. They were talking about employees suing bad bosses for treating them unfairly. According to the ACLU, 37% of employees feel their bosses treat them abusively and they want to set legislation to standardize how people are treated. Now I […]
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