If you own or manage an office, it’s important that you keep it clean and tidy. Clutter tends to reduce productivity, weaken employee morale, and alienate clients, which can result in poor profits for your business. Whether you dispose of your unneeded items by donating, recycling, or storing them, here are a few quick and easy ways to declutter your commercial property.

How to Declutter Your Office Space

1. Group & Sort Your Items

Create four different boxes for items in your office that you want to keep, discard, shred, and move elsewhere. Organize the things you want to hold onto, and have a garbage collection company pick up shredded paperwork for recycling. Move excess office supplies or inventory into a storage unit. 

2. Include Storage Solutions

Another great way to declutter your office is by including pieces of furniture that double as storage. For instance, use bookshelves or cubbies as dividers between cubicles. As part of your decor, include benches and seats that conceal storage containers beneath the cushions. 

3. Upload Files to the Cloud

Filing cabinets typically take up ample square footage in office spaces. Eliminate the need for hard copies of documents by uploading your files to cloud storage, allowing you to instantly sync them to any device. Keep additional copies on external hard drives, just in case anything gets deleted.

4. Take Your Time

Decluttering an office space is a time-consuming task that may leave you feeling exhausted if you don’t take it slow. You’ll also want to avoid doing it during office hours. Set aside a few evenings during the week or a couple of weekend days to reorganize the space at your own pace, so you don’t get overwhelmed.

As part of your decluttering project, have RTI Trash pick up your recycling. For more than 40 years, this garbage collection company has provided roll-off boxes, front-load dumpsters, and recycling services to residents and businesses throughout Russellville, AR, and the surrounding cities. Call (479) 890-2662 to schedule trash and recycling pickup, or visit them online to learn more about sizes and pricing.