What happened to the paperless office? The appearance of the computer was supposed to remove the need for paper in the office, but most people receive more paper documents than ever before. If you are to avoid drowning in a sea of paper, you need a straightforward and efficient technique for managing it.
Follow along as one employer, let’s call her Jane, thinks about how she handles her paperwork. “The paperwork I receive distracts me from the task in hand, and I usually ignore it for as long as possible,” she says. “I keep nearly all the documents that land on my desk. I have a large office,with plenty of drawer and cupboard space, so this is not a problem”.
Ignoring paperwork that lands on your desk, or aiming to store it all, are simply two different ways of failing to manage it. Instead, there is a simple, but powerful technique for managing paperwork. Make a prompt decision about the fate of each document you receive, based on whether it should be filed, passed on, thrown away, or needs to be read.
The "File, Pass on, Throw away, Read" Technique The choices contained in the "file, pass on, throw away, read" technique are not, of course, necessarily mutually exclusive. Some documents will need reading thoroughly before filing or passing on; others will not. It may or may not be immediately clear whether a document should be treated as trash.
It is certainly the case, however, that a cursory look will tell you all you need to know about many documents. A lot of paperwork that comes across your desk is not worth the time it would take you to read it.
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