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If you own a business, it’s inevitable that you will need to store things like equipment, supplies and files. Where and how you store these items is incredibly important as it can make a huge difference to your overall efficiency as a crowded and disorganised workspace can slow you down.

Here’s how to organise and free up storage space for better business efficiency.

Business Premises:

Storage challenges are something most new startups or SMEs will face at one time or another. When you’re beginning to outgrow your premises, there’s plenty of things you can do to get organised and free up space:

• Take a walk around the premises and begin to identify things which are misplaced or are in the way. This could be boxes stacked up in corners and corridors or paperwork piled up on desks.
• Before you attempt to store everything in cupboards or storerooms, move everything to one place (like a breakout area for example) and think about which items you would prefer to have handy and what can be stored away.
• Put the things you use regularly into your cupboards or storerooms, labelling and organising them for easier access. For the items you only use occasionally, start looking into a self-storage unit. Hiring a self-storage unit is a great alternative to renting warehouse space or moving into larger premises. This is because it’s less expensive and completely flexible, meaning you can increase or decrease the space as your needs change.

Home working:

It’s likely that your work space has been confined to a small area of the house like your kitchen table or a spare room for example so it’s important to make sure you have room to think, instead of being crowded by files and supplies.

• Putting up sturdy, wall-mounted shelves or using a bookcase to store your items vertically can help you save a large amount of valuable floor space.
• When it comes to paperwork, look at digitising some of your files and using cloud storage. This will help reduce the amount of paperwork you need to keep in filing boxes and cabinets.
• Put old but important paperwork into cardboard archive boxes, and then consider moving these into self-storage to help free up some space.

Proper storage solutions can save you valuable space and time, leaving you free to focus on growing your business.

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