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Healthy eating can be a challenge when most quick lunches are the in fast food category. But no one does good work on an empty stomach. Here are some tips to promote healthy eating in the office.

The first thing you should do if you are in charge of the snack supply is get rid of any candy or junk food in the break room including the vending machines. Try leaving bowls of fruit around the break room or you could stock the vending machines with relatively healthy fare like cereal bars, trail mix, meal replacement bars and mixed nuts. If your office does not have a vending machine try a little display box similar to those used for selling candy bars door to door.

If you are not in charge of the food supply be active and petition for these changes. It may seem odd but studies have shown folks just work better when they eat right so it shouldn’t be difficult to have your boss improve in office offerings. See if the company can pass out coupons or menus for nearby eateries with better lunch options like soups or veggie laden sandwiches. See if any deliver to the workplace.

If your office has a refrigerator for employees but you notice people do not want to use it, ask why. I know many offices have had lunches go missing or the fridge does not get cleaned properly. Ask if workers could keep a small dorm style refrigerator or cooler by their desk. Insulated lunchboxes work well too.

Sometimes the little things you do add up. If you are going out for a nutritious lunch ask if anyone else wants to order. The staff could take turns picking up to go orders or carpool. If you have some make ahead recipes share them with your coworkers. Never underestimate the appeal a delicious smelling dish will have so be sure have healthy lunches yourself. If you bring enough for two it could be the beginning of a trend no more junk food at the office.

When working in an office, oftentimes many individuals avoid the dreaded “bathroom”. This is because when surrounded by busy co-workers most often the chore of making the bathroom a habitable environment is last on the list. In order to help make the restroom in your office a more welcoming and hygienic area, there are a few things you can implement.

First off, consider installing a bidet in your restroom. If you have a combined restroom the bidet can really come in handy and save you money on toilet paper! Where men are concerned, there is virtually no need to use toilet paper as a bidet comes built with running water as well as a dryer. How convenient!

For females, using a bidet can also be comforting and add a sense of cleanliness to the restroom. Overall, a bidet was invented to give individuals a fresh and clean feeling more-so than dry toilet paper could afford to each person.

As mentioned prior, using a bidet cuts back on office supplies over time as well. Toilet paper will still be used, but at a lesser extent than would be the case without a bidet. All in all, adding a bidet will promote better hygiene, decreases illnesses and improve work ethic as well as cut down on the expenses used for the restroom over time.

Perhaps simply discussing the option in the next meeting may spark some interest in adding this device. You may be surprised to see the enthusiasm for which others support the idea. You may also then incorporate other healthy habits such as a rule that all employees must wash hands before returning to the workplace and possibly install handheld hand dryers instead of paper towels. These are all options that can help promote a more healthy work environment for all employees.

If you’ve ever lost business documents on your computer and was unable to retrieve them, then you probably understand the importance of backing up your files. With the emerging revolution of technology with new innovations being created everyday, there are a number of ways to back up your business documents.

The first way is to save your files on an external hard drive. You want to make sure when you purchase an external hard drive that you consider the amount of space you will need to save your documents. Be mindful, that Publisher, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint documents take up a lot of space. The second way to save your documents is to email files to your email address or to another email address so that you can retrieve them from another computer and save them. The third way to save your files is to save them to a backup internal drive stored on your computer. Often times when you save files on your computer the files are automatically saved on the local disk (C:) drive. However, most computers should have a recovery drive (D:) in which files have to be manually saved. There are also different types of software available to help restore files.

Some of this software can retrieve lost documents as far back as three months, some even longer than that. All you need to do is purchase the software, unless it was free, download it, and select the file(s) you are trying to retrieve. You are not guaranteed to retrieve the files you lost. There are few factors that determine whether you are able to retrieve files such as the format of the file, the date of the file, and the type of application the file was saved in. This is why it is important to back up your files and back up your back up so that you do not risk trying to retrieve documents that can not be retrieved.