Work At Home Experts

Working from home requires extra diligence in paperwork.  If you aren’t careful, the kids will end up doodling on a work order or receipt and you’ll be in a real mess.  This is especially true if your home office is a shared workspace or is mobile.

Knowing where you want your paper to end is important.  Of course, where it ends depends on what type of business you have and what type of paper you handle.

I take pains to reduce the paper into and out of my home office.  If I can keep e-records and create e-prints of my sales records, I do just that and file it on my computer.  This means I must back up weekly.

For paper that you can’t lessen, like sales receipts, contracts, etc., you’ll need a filing system.  There are many to choose from, including ones based on paper importance and ones based on numerical files or alphabetical classifications. 

Because most of my paper IS on my computer, I end up with few paper files, so I can be very specific in those files. 

How you do it is completely up to you, however, don’t end up sending your latest proposal on the back of your daughter’s history report.  Manage your paper well.