This past year has seen more and more of us returning to the office more days out of the week… if not full-time. Now that businesses are having more meetings at the office again and having more staff working out of those offices, we may be quickly finding ourselves dealing with storage issues in need of a solution.
Not only do our offices need proper storage practices to maintain a clean and professional work environment, but it’s vitally important to security as well – which can easily be compromised more often as more and more people are coming in and out of the office. So how does one figure out how much storage space is needed for their business?
Holiday storage concerns aren't limited to your home. If your business or office puts up any sort of holiday decorations – whether it's for Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Hanukkah, or any other seasonal event – a good office storage system is needed to organize and store them afterward.
We are all always looking for ways on how to improve workflow in order to make workplace operations move more smoothly. The most efficient workflows let people perform their jobs easily and quickly without sacrificing the quality of their work.
Storage unit organization for your business is a lot like office organization. There are a lot of tips, but ultimately you need to find what works for you!
Your business might need a storage unit for many reasons, but it can be easy to go overboard. To minimize your expense, you want to make sure you organize your self-storage unit.
It seems like data breaches are in the news all the time, mostly large-scale incidents like corporate data going public and individual identity theft. For both individuals and companies, it comes down to taking proper safeguards – especially with hard copies of information that could easily be "rescued" from the garbage.
Converting your documents to a digital format gives you the ability to both secure and work with the data. But what about the hard copies left over at the end of the process?
Medical records present unique privacy issues as they contain some of the most vital private data you have. Their proper care up to and including the destruction (and proof thereof), is not only of utmost importance but it is also an issue of legal liability.
When converting your medical records to a digital format these issues should be at the forefront of your considerations.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations are extremely strict since they govern your most personal health care data. Violations of these laws have serious, and often expensive, repercussions making HIPAA compliance a top priority for any business or medical practice that falls under its jurisdiction. This can become a bit of a headache with the variety of media on which that data can now find itself stored, but there are compliant solutions available.
It's that time of year again, and taxes loom. The increasingly complicated array of hoops to jump through complicates this time of year for so many people. As with many things in life, the stress that tax season induces can be alleviated with a modicum of education and organization. Let's review some of the basics.
Before you do anything else, figure out if existing employees need more space. A simple change like offering employees a bit more room to do their jobs can be a benefit in a very competitive hiring environment and promote goodwill among your employees. Since many employees are reticent to return to crowded offices, acknowledging that by giving employees more room to breathe is sure to be a hit – and it helps slow or deter the spread of germs… whether they're from colds, flu, or COVID.
There are many factors in business ownership that we can’t control, and the world economy is one of them. Whenever even a single economist mentions a possible recession, it can be terrifying for business owners.
For many business owners the first reaction is denial. The second is to start cutting costs without thinking about whether those are “good costs” or “bad costs”.
Good costs are things that actively help your business thrive. Bad costs are expenses that you can probably do without. Advertising, for instance, is generally a good cost while paper and ink might be bad costs… but not always.
And denial? Well, that never helps anything.
The decision to take your office paperless can be intimidating. Many people feel like they do better when they have paper everywhere: paper planners, paper to-do lists, paper reports.
But the reality is all that paper is just making you more inefficient, creating more work, and taking up space.
The Storage Quarters Advantage Storage companies are popping up everywhere, so why should you choose Storage Quarters over the competition? Let’s start with the obvious. Storage Quarters has been here for 35 years, and we’re not going anywhere. That's longevity and experience you can count on.
The change of seasons is a great time to clean and reorganize, especially in the fall when we naturally start to focus on the last months of the year and to be indoors. Whether the office you're organizing is one for a traditional business, a home office, or something in between, there's no such thing as being too organized or having too many tips, hacks, and tactics to be organized.
Since the pandemic, many more Americans have discovered the joy of working from home. While ditching the commute is fantastic, it does have some downsides, like all the paperwork that is now in your home office.
For many people, carving out the extra space to have a place to work was hard enough. Now they want you to store those records, too. If you’re new to having a home office, or if your office just needs a little organizing help, we’re here to help you find a system that works for you and doesn’t mean you have even less living space.
Mobile shredding is an efficient convenience many businesses use to remove old or irrelevant data that may still have sensitive or personal data attached to it. Instead of dealing with the logistical headache of transporting and tending to the destruction of your documents, mobile shredding services allow for your files to be dealt with at your location and securely handled while following HIPAA-compliant guidelines. Regardless of your business type, secure shredding is vital to protect your business and your clients from identity theft.
Space is usually at a premium for both home and office, and it's getting worse as commercial and residential rental areas become more expensive. Fortunately, there are many options and tricks for maximizing your space, either doing what you can to efficiently store and pack your possessions, digitizing records, or renting out a self-storage space.
If you are capable of managing your time in the workplace, you will find that you perform better and be less stressed, and have the opportunity to grow in your field. But good time management isn't always easy or intuitive, so finding the best time management tools and priority methods for your work and lifestyle is essential.
Starting in the U.S. in 1995 as National Records and Information Management Day, all of April has become an entire month, recognized internationally, for spring cleaning and reorganizing vital information records. It's a yearly reminder to look at your document and record management procedures and make adjustments to maintain security and efficiency.
