OFFICE MINDFULNESS

Work Organisation Strategies

Work activates need planning, when you do this you need to take the following into consideration.

Firstly, you need to think about regular breaks during the day. This doesn’t mean you have to walk
away from your job. Exercise could include head rolls, shoulder lifts and wrist drops. You could also
do some eye exercises to reduce eye strain.

Secondly, variation of activities is important. You should make sure you take time away from your
computer work to do some filing, make some business calls or other activities.

Finally, you should incorporate rest breaks into your schedule having a ten minute break away from
your computer every hour. This is extremely important in order to alleviate strain on your body that
could lead to health problems and even long-term disability.

Energy and resource conservation techniques

Turn off the lights

Remember to hit the switch on your way out for that well-deserved lunch break. The energy
savings from 10 million office workers turning off unneeded lights for 30 minutes a day is enough
to illuminate four million square metres of office space.

Remove yourself from junk mail lists.

The last thing you need is another office supply catalogue or credit card offer. But before tossing
out junk mail, call the company and ask that your name be removed from its mailing list. Have
contacts e-mail you instead.
Almost 50 percent of all catalogues are never opened, yet nearly 62 million trees are destroyed and
28 billion gallons of water are used to produce them every year.

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Send your monitor to sleep

Screensavers are designed to save your screen from burn in, not to save energy. Monitors are
responsible for more than one third of a computer's energy consumption, so conserve energy by
putting yours to sleep or powering off altogether when you're away from your desk for more than
10 minutes.

Make your printer's toner last

If you're printing rough drafts or documents for internal purposes, change the printer's settings to
economy mode and avoid printing in colour if possible. Economy mode uses up to 50 percent less
toner and prints twice as many pages as higher quality settings. Printing on both sides slashes the
number of sheets used by 50 percent.

Recycle paper
If it tears, it can be recycled: from magazines and manila folders to plain paper and post-it notes.
Remember recycle used and shredded paper. Manufacturing recycled paper generates 74 percent
less air pollution than creating paper from scratch and saves trees, water and energy

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