If you’re basically your own boss and you have the good fortune to work from home, you’re one of the lucky ones. You may be a freelancer, or starting up a bigger company, but the issues remain the same. One temptation you will have to fight in your home office space is to make it too homely, to eject every piece of stuffy office decorum. You can leave papers strewn wherever, not care how many coffee-cup rings are scored across the surface of your desk. If you were working from Serviced Offices Mayfair they probably wouldn’t be mad about your underpants being draped across your desk fan. The important thing is to discern what office basics are essential, and what are mere etiquette.

The main thing you can allow your home office space to be is ‘fun’. There’s a whole internet’s worth of inspiration out there, but you’ll want to temper it all with your own tastes. Some offices surround their users with a ridiculous array of screens. Other Offices neatly present a bunch of memorabilia that emphasises fun in and orderly fashion. There are even offices with major architectural tricks, such as putting the office behind a moveable bookcase. There’s an amazing number of great ideas out there. But many of these individual spaces are rather dependent on tidy people, with plenty of clutter opportunities for the untidy user. Clutter is important enough to avoid that you should be 100% sure that you’re capable of working in a home office. If even in a well designed office you’re buried under it, perhaps you should look into Serviced Offices Soho, because office structuring is clearly something you need.

But in your home office, a whole load of shelving, boxes and the right desk can go a long way: just make sure you buy for fun and well as functionality. If you look in the right places, there’s always something to fully serve the aesthetic you want for your office space. The clutter you accumulate isn’t merely limited to the operational and personal stuff though. Your computer is a massive source of clutter, both physically and virtually. If you’re using a single screen for anything, you’re doing it wrong. Even with the advent of easily segmented workspaces on a single screen, the alt-tab disadvantage still means that a second (or third) will help your productivity. Arrange cables and tie them where necessary too.

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