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Your telephone on the other hand should be located right next to your monitor

within reach of your non-dominant hand – if you mainly receive incoming calls. On
the other hand, if you plan on spending a lot of time making outgoing calls, this is
where it really pays to have your computer keyboard on a retractable drawer that

can be moved under the monitor when not in use. You’ll want a telephone chord

that’s a bit longer, allowing you to move it around a bit as needed. This all may
seem obvious, but it’s amazing how many people don’t think about it until it
becomes an annoyance.

No matter how high-tech you office becomes, there are some things – such as
staplers, paper clips, pens and pencils, paper, tape, “post-it” notes – that will
always be part of running a business. The best place for these are on a hanging

shelf above the monitor where they are within easy reach, yet out of the way.

About Wireless Technology

By now, there are few among us who haven’t heard of (A) the horrors of tangled

masses (messes?) of chords, sitting like a great Gordian Knot underneath desks,
making it nearly impossible to change peripherals or track down trouble when it
occurs. No matter how neatly one attempts to arrange these cords, they inevitably

turn into a writhing pile of snakes from Indiana Jones’ darkest nightmares.

Wireless technology is nothing new, and actually dates back to the 1890’s, when
Guglielmo Marconi developed the first successful wireless telegraph. The idea of

using radio frequencies eventually led to the broadcast of music and news over

commercial sets, the “walkie-talkie” of World War II, and eventually cellular
phones. In the last several years, this technology has been used in WANs (“Wide
Area Networks”) and LANs (“Local Area Networks”) in order to transmit a wide

range a data.