Beautifully Organized at Work: Bring Order and Joy to Your Work Life So You Can Stay Calm, Relieve Stress, and Get More Done Each Day

by Nikki Boyd

Bring peace and joy into your workspace as you learn how to declutter your office and mind and create a stress-free work environment.

Clutter and mess can distract you, stress you out, and get in the way of efficiently getting work done. That's why Beautifully Organized at Work was created to give you practical tips and tools for how to mindfully transform your workspace and get organized so you can feel better about your work and be better set up for success.

YouTube star and professional organizer Nikki Boyd, author of the bestselling book Beautifully Organized, brings her expert skills to this book.

Beautifully Organized at Work includes:
• Everything you need to know about decluttering your desk and organizing files--both in your physical and digital space
• Valuable advice on how to plan your work days so you can have a well-balanced and productive week
• How to select the desk, chair, and lighting that are ideal for your needs
• Information tailored for cubicle, co-working spaces, working from home, and more
• Tips on how to get your coworkers involved in creating a beautifully organized breakroom, conference room, and lobby

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Interior Design

151 pages, Hardcover

First published July 6, 2021

About the author

Nikki Boyd is a professional organizer and founder of athomewithnikki.com where she helps bring beautiful order in homes around the world with her business, blog and YouTube channel. What began as a hobby is now a successful home organizing business, a popular blog, and YouTube channel, with thousands of readers coming to her site for creative and straightforward ways to beautifully organize their homes. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina with her husband and two puppies.

Reviews

[Panda Incognito · Rating 4 out of 5]

This beautiful, well-photographed book shares organization and decor advice for work spaces, and the author includes longer reflections and suggestion lists, making it easy for readers to skim or read in-depth to the level that they need in each chapter. She also shares example stories from her life and from her clients, showing how she has resolved different organizational problems.

This book shares lots of advice for working in an office environment with other people, and also addresses working from home, in a coffee shop, or in your car. Much of the advice generalizes, and this book includes lots of unique organization ideas that I haven't seen before, like keeping technology cables in a binder's zipper pouches.

There is a lot of practical advice here about organizing your space and organizing your routine, and people can glean advice from this regardless of their specific work set-up. However, regarding the author's repeated encouragements to diffuse scents in workspaces, I hope that people will check with their coworkers about fragrance sensitivities before putting any of this into action.

I enjoyed this book, and I'm glad that I read it. Even though home organization books tend to run together for me these days, with nothing that I haven't seen before, this book includes excellent practical advice and encouragement that is different and new.

[Debbie Nicoletti · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a quick read for me after discovering it through our PINES library hold system and receiving a copy from a neighbor city.

I found her chapter on “Organizing Your Digital Workspace” to be the most useful and gained a few nuggets on decluttering a computer, using a desktop wallpaper organizer, recommendations for digital planners and password managers.

[Mila · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nikki does it again 🫶 A great coffee table pick up anytime read with actionable tips that I’ll come back to and reference again and again throughout the year.

[Stephanie]

I picked this up because the office on the front is aesthetically beautiful and I want to be more organized at work. I did find that I felt it fit better for business owners or people who get to create their own office spaces, either at home or outside the home. As a librarian who didn't get to choose any of the space or resources she has, I was still able to take tips from this book, but I don't have as much control over everything she recommends. I still recommend the read, but just keep this in mind!

[Kayla Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very insightful and helpful tips but will say this book isn't very everyone. Some tips you will find useful some you will not, I could have gone a whole chapter without but decided to read anyways. In addition some chapter transitions are unclear that we are moving to a different subject until you see the photo on the next page. A few times I went oh thats it.

overall a helpful book but dont think it's filled with everything you will ever need. This is a starter organizer not and end all be all.

[Ernest Kincaid · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked it. I really did. For my first introduction to organizing functionally for a purpose, it's great. It is not very in-depth, and so does not overwhelm. I needed that because I could easily become overwhelmed. I am not an intrinsically organized person, and as I am learning, this book came along at just the right time to give just the right amount of inspiration to keep going. I think you'll be inspired, too.

[Lauren · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had envisioned this more as a way to reset a cluttered existence, but instead this was more of a fresh start approach and I was disappointed. I also felt like much of the advice was common sense and thus not terribly helpful to me. The most valuable portion of the book was the organization of a digital workday and how to implement a clever and organized flow to managing emails and frantic clients while maximizing productivity.

[Jaime Barfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book was a great read with usable tips about organizing your work life from your office to your planner and many more. Great tips on how to create a workspace at home even in the smallest places. Enjoyed and recommended.

[Juan M Calzada · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well structured book that provides a positive framework to be organized, it’s well balanced for work from home, be organized and have a clear work structure recommended if your feeling overwhelmed and need a friendly soundboard.

[Mercurialgem · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nothing new new or that you can't get from watching her YT but the book is aesthetically beautiful to go through and I did get a couple new ideas. I also google lens some of the cute stuff I saw on the pages.

[Patricia Gmitrovic · Rating 4 out of 5]

Liked her tech cord organizing tips.. I definitely need that.

[Chelsea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent ideas and beautiful photographs for showing organizational hacks. I did not want the book to end!

[Alexis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book with practical tips and things I need to implement into my office.

[Aimee Ortega · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. It was simple and short and so well organized, while also filled with so many beautiful organized office photos and ideas. I am so inspired to organize my home office now!

[Dania · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a nice reminder of "back to basics" when in comes to organizing. It was helpful to review and could be inspirational around the new year as folks return to work.

[Karin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simple, nothing earth shattering. But a well put together, quick read to give you some ideas and inspiration.

[Kari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy read, beautiful photos. Some helpful tips. But not entirely practical, at least for me/my office. Who is actually putting essential oils on their lightbulbs? I will say though, putting my sticky notes inside a notebook/planner was basically life changing for me. My desk was constantly cluttered with those things and now it’s clear!

[Chibimagic · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not much useful info in the book, but: it was in a free book bin, it's a quick read, and the pictures are pretty and calming.

[Becky Gust · Rating 3 out of 5]

A beautifully photographed book filled with great advice on creating a welcome environment to work in. I have now successfully decluttered my office space which had become a bit of a dumping ground with stuff from coworkers. I finally moved out my old computer, keyboard, and mouse which replaced my new setup over a year ago (and had been gathering dust on the floor)!!! I realized as others dumped odds and ends in my office space because they didn't know what else to do with them, I started neglecting my workspace by dumping things and I had piles of papers and items I never use everywhere. It really began to feel like a hoarder worked in my space.

One day I spotted this book at the bookstore. The next day, I began decluttering one spot at a time. I decluttered, dusted, and wiped things down. I found a home for everything. Now I look forward to coming to work. I am more productive. My mental health has improved.