Top 5 Office Spring Cleaning Tips and Tricks
Spring is in the air! Time to plant flowers, mulch your garden, and sweep out a year’s worth of grit and debris from your garage. While you’re at it, it’s a great time to show your workspace a little love. A clean, uncluttered desk can make your workday more enjoyable and help you get more done.
To get you started, here are our top tips.
1. Clean Your Phone and Keyboard
By now, everyone’s read articles talking about how phones and keyboards can be germier than a toilet seat. If that grosses you out (and it probably should), a little spring cleaning of your high-touch devices might be in order. While disinfectant wipes and sprays may do the trick for some things, they have the potential to damage phone screens and other electronics. That’s why UV light sanitizers are worth a look.
2. Clean Up Your Airspace
From dust to allergens, there are many things we’d be better off not breathing. Running an ionic air purifier with a HEPA Filter on your desk or near your workspace may help.
3. Clean Up Cable Clutter
An unruly tangle of wires on, behind, and beneath your desk looks unprofessional and can also create a safety hazard. A cable raceway can help you keep your power strip, cords, and “wall warts” tidy. It also lifts them off the ground to help eliminate the chance of someone tripping over them.
4. Clean Up Messy Paperwork
As much as we strive for a paperless office, written notes, handouts, brochures, and other documents always seem to accumulate. Spring is a great time to recycle what you don’t need and then use a small filing cabinet to organize the stuff that’s too important to discard.
5. Clean Up Your Floorspace
You don’t want people to step on (or trip over) your purse or backpack. Get them off the floor by installing a bag hook. This utilizes unused space beneath your desk and helps give your workspace an uncluttered look.
We hope these spring cleaning at work tips help you start the year off with a more aesthetically-pleasing, enjoyable workspace.
