At How It Stacks Up, we share what we have learned while organizing office and work spaces. Through the following blog posts, we highlight thoughts, tips, and favourite products and places to shop, to help you maximize space and stay organized.
Time to End Cramped Cubicles
With skyrocketing real estate costs, businesses are opting for smaller employee work spaces like cubicles and group desks. That’s why you don’t have your own office anymore. Even 10 years ago, in a midlevel position, you often got your own […]
Kondo Cleaning Craze Catches On
Marie Kondo’s book, the life-changing magic of tidying up, has been a sensation since it was released. Five years later, Netflix’s Tidying Up with Marie Kondo has elicited a second wave of love as millions unload items that don’t “spark joy” by following her “KonMari […]
Is Your Work Style Early Bird or Night Owl?
Each workday, Night Owls drag themselves out of bed to arrive at the office on time, while Early Birds fight taking a nap in the early afternoon. Wouldn’t it be great if all employees were able to design their day […]
Organizations’ Disorganization
It’s not just an oxymoron: an organization’s disorganization. It’s a threat. Before work begins, companies and business owners have to decide (1) their main focus (2) what they’ll avoid, and (3) how the operation will be set up to run […]
Obsolete or Disappearing Office Traits
As digital technology transforms our personal lives, it inevitably changes the way we work too. If you have been in an office for more than a decade, you’ve seen the advent—and demise—of fax machines, floppy disks, couriers, developing photos, and […]
The Evolution of the Office
Remember when the media hailed the advent of “working from home?” Exciting. Then email made us reachable on weekends. Less exciting. Next, cell phones made us available… pretty much any time. Traditional work hours faded. Technology advances our convenience factor […]
Making Your Office Yours
As a new employee, you probably walked into your office or cubicle, and got right to work. After logging into your computer, you may have checked out the office supply situation. You most likely didn’t go much beyond these steps. […]
Organizer’s Picks for Best GTA Office Stores
The lazy days of summer are soon coming to an end, as we enter the last long weekend for a while. I urge anyone with an office or workspace to take a look at your space, and see where you […]
Helping Employees Who Unexpectedly Leave
My volatile manager was screaming at me, fists pounding on the desk. After sobbing in my office, I left ill for the day, coat and purse in hand. However, my Doctor had a different idea, and put me on stress […]
Organized Workspaces Bring Relief
Famed psychologist and talk show host, Dr. Phil McGraw, once suggested that given our stressful pace, home should be a soft spot to land. I believe we can apply this feeling to our workspaces too. After organizing an office recently, […]