This is a major issue at work right now. MAJOR.

The person who does the filing was let go and now we're reorganizing all the files. They were arranged how she files so we all just went along with it. Now that she's gone, we are trying to find out the best way the filing should go. I was amazed that with 6 people we have 6 completely different ways of filing!

The biggest issue is this: do you file with most recent papers on top of old ones or do you put the most recent papers behind the older ones? Apparently this is a major thing... who knew!?

Do you file customers alphabetically or chronilogically?

Oh, and this apparently is huge too.... staple papers together or paperclip?

I swear, this is going to cause a riot in my office! People are passionate about the way to file papers. I don't see the big deal. I'll put papers whereever you tell me to do so.

I was just wondering what the general opinion was on how to organize files.