IDG Contributor Network: Is this the perfect office workflow?
About five years ago, I buried my desk phone. There wasn’t a ceremony, and by “bury” I mean I put it in the garbage and figure it ended up (sadly) in a landfill somewhere. Feel free to point out that I could have donated the phone or recycled it somehow, but there are times when you just need to rip something out of your office and make it extinct.
Since then, over the past five years, I’ve lived without a desk phone, but there have been a few times when I’ve regretted it. I typically use a smartphone at my desk, but I happen to have fairly big hands (I missed my calling as a hand model for a big and tall store). So, if I’m using an iPhone, for example, I have to carefully punch out the numbers. To make matters worse, I have to fish it out of my pocket, or find it in my laptop bag, or find it period.
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