At How It Stacks Up, we share what we have learned while organizing office and work spaces. Through these regular blog posts, we highlight thoughts, tips, and favourite products and places to shop, to help you maximize space and stay organized.
Working at Home During COVID-19 Outbreak
Being in close proximity to sneezing, coughing passengers is more alarming than usual right now for employees travelling on public transit. Additionally, being in close quarters and contact with colleagues […]
Seeing 2020: New Office Habits
You go to work every day, and there’s money for bills and food. It’s a good time of year to ask: are you happy, or just satisfied? I believe people […]
What Paper Piles and Digital Disorganization Cost You
Some people embrace clutter. They love their messy office. They know exactly what’s in each and every one of their 27 piles of paper littering the desk, floor, windowsill, and […]
5 Tips for Smart Filing
For a supposed digital society, paper clutter is still an epidemic. And for others, the disorganization has just shifted from physical to digital. If you don’t know how to handle […]
What Happens When We Become Organized?
The things we keep in our workspace/office exposes what we decided will enhance our career, job, expertise, life, or business. When papers pile up or are dumped unsorted in boxes, […]
Next Decluttering Practice: Swedish Death Cleaning
While people around the world embrace Marie Kondo’s method of what sparks joy to declutter, those into their 50s and beyond are practicing the Swedish Death Cleaning method (SDC) or […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]