My boss has expressed significant stress about her cluttered desk and has asked me to help her organize it this week. I'm worried about her anxiety levels, as they tend to affect me as well. She has a massive amount of paperwork. Any suggestions on how to approach this overwhelming task?

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I suppose a good way to proceed is to talk to your boss and figure out how she moves through tasks. And then try to organize the paperwork so she can tackle it task by task. If she feels like she's making progress moving through what sounds like a backlog, she'll probably have less anxiety. In any event, you should try to help her find an efficient way to just get into it and get things done and out of the way.

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OP I am the queen of file folders and labels. I am so good at sorting piles of paper and getting them into files that make sense so that they are easy to find. You can also scan things in and put them in electronic files if she is pretty tech saavy.

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I would digitalize everything and save it on the site one drive for her to reference if need be.

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