Filing & Storage Gets Personal

The average employee spends the equivalent of over two and a half working weeks a year filing paperwork and 52 percent of businesses spend 1 – 2 hours each week filing. Fellowes, a leading manufacturer of storage units, found in a recent poll that almost 50% of people said that lack of a formal filing system led to negative situations within the office, like loss of contracts. Fellowes recently worked with Dr. Matt Davis, lecturer in socio technical systems at the University of Leeds to investigate this love of filing and have identified four typologies; ‘The Architect’, ‘The Boffin’, ‘The Nester’ and ‘The Neat Freak’.

Which one are you?

The Boffin: As a Boffin you bring science and logic to your organisation systems. Your storage style favours the category within a category approach.

The Neat Freak: If someone moves something from your desk, you (and they) will know about it. As a Neat Freak you’re almost obsessive in your desire to make your world uniformed and orderly.

The Architect: Tall towers of papers dominate your office landscape. Colleagues have been known to stop at the door to your office and back off slowly, for fear of disrupting your mountain of materials.

The Nester: Surrounding yourself with things that make you smile keeps you happy in your work. Your Desk is an extension of your own home, with all your personal favourites close.

Daryl Brunt, UK & Ireland sales & marketing Director at Fellowes says: “It is light hearted but there is a clear message here – the way we file is important.”

Bankers box by Fellowes are stackable, designed to complement other products and come in large labelling areas and allow people to personalise their storage system in a way that makes sense to them. So whether you’re a Neat Freak or a Boffin there is a Bankers Box product that is right for you.