This year was a crazy time. The covid-19 pandemic changed lots of things for our company. This all took place right after we moved to a new facility. We ended up with so many packaging crates filling our new office that it seemed a bit overwhelming. We went from a multi office building to a open concept space and the crates filled it up. So it was my goal to then take our new office and organise it into a wonderful place to work for us all. Sometimes a storage room is the most important room because it can keep the rest of the work place uncluttered and that in itself can save so much trouble and mental pain for many people.
The storage room is the baine or love of an OCD individual. We have many people that cannot work in messy spaces and it physically causes them pain to see things that are a mess. For myself I knew that I needed to help accommodate them and in our new open concept office the mess these crates were going to create was immense. So I figured the first step was to count every single item we had and make a list of it.
Having an inventory of our items was really important because it created a system for ordering things for the future and it created a great way to know what to order and how much because we started fresh with numbers we could calculate and work with in the future. So each crate I opened I cataloged and then stored with cardboard boxes in our storage room. I then market the products and quantity that was in each box. I then left lots of space on the cardboard boxes to let others change the quantity as they used or added to the box. This allowed for the organization to get really fun. It allowed us all to not only have a list of what we had but a visual reminder as well that something may be getting low and that is also a great way to keep those visual learners a way to know that we should order more of something.
It seems like such a small thing to keep the storage room organized and it took and entire day to do. Some may think this was a waste but it has allowed us to now for a whole year to be organized and keep up with our office supplies. We have not ran out of anything and wee are all able to find things very easily and it has even been improved upon as we have gone on. It is small things like this that have allowed us to stay on top of difficult times and even stay sanitary.
During this time staying sanitary is important and if we all know exactly where things are we can get to them very easily and without touching lots of other things. We clean up after ourselves and this is the best way to keep on top of the health and safety regulations that we need. Being safe with a mask, and making sure we use a pair of gloves in that room and then toss them is very important to us. So stay safe and organize well.
Organized with Jill 