Spring Clean Your Business from the Inside Out

The type of spring cleaning that can help jumpstart your career involves more than just sweeping away dust bunnies or washing windows. To really get down to the nitty-gritty, you have to organize your office from the inside out. Not sure where to start? Check out the ideas below for getting your office organized.

Inside the Office

• Sort through paper documents and decide what to file, throw away or pass along.
• Delete e-mails you haven’t referred to in more than a few months.
• Clean up your hard drive by deleting files and programs you no longer use.
• Back up your computer system.
• Sort through your storage area and donate or discard unused items.
• Update your address books, including your contact information on websites like LinkedIn.
• Shred sensitive documents that are no longer needed.

Bring it Home

• Replace burned out lights.
• Repair any holes or cracks in the pavement.
• Spray or pull weeds to give lawns a manicured look.
• Mulch flowerbeds.
• Hire an exterminator to spray for pests.
• Clean the gutters.