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10 Office Hacks to

Improve Productivity

How about giving your work routine a little upgrade? These tips from outsourcing
platform Airtasker are essential to killer productivity.Look around your desk

right now. Is it organized chaos, or just everyday chaos? A cluttered brain and
a cluttered to-do list don’t do much for productivity. Here are ten genuinely

useful office assistance hacks to help you get organized and do more.

1. Clean between keyboard keys with tape and Not only will drinking
a toothbrush more water ward

There have been a few different tests on this, but off the need for
snacking, since your
the consensus is your keyboard has over 3000 brain is mostly water,
more germs per square inch than an actual toilet drinking it helps
seat.
you in many ways,
Use some sticky tape to pick up crumbs and even including improving
a toothbrush can come in handy to dust between concentration and
the keys, then an antibacterial wipe to sort those cognition.
germs out.
The best way to
challenge yourself
into doing this is to
get yourself a refillable
water bottle (which we’re sure you own because
you care about plastic’s damaging impact on the
environment) and mark 1-2 hour time slots on it.
You’ll also know at a glance if your water-drinking
is behind schedule.

2. Stick time slots on your water bottle 3. Choose a plant for your desk
You’ll have heard just about every fitness Just because it’s your work desk, that doesn’t
influencer stressing about how drinking a mean to can’t add your little personal touch or
minimum of two liters of water a day is a smart even a little life to it. Some desks are a bit sad
choice; however, us mere mortals know this and dreary, even in the freshest and innovative
is more difficult to do than it sounds. With the office spaces. According to the University of
autumn/winter months approaching, all you Exeter, plants can improve wellbeing by up to
want is a hot chocolate or a good old builder’s 47% and enhance creativity by 45%. Searches
tea. for ‘air purifying plants’ and ‘aloe vera’ were up a

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