[MIT-Elephant]

This obsession with clear desks belies my experience. I've known plenty of administrative workers whose offices are a complete mess, and know every scrap of paper in the room and get things done like gangbusters.

Methings it's more like the consultants are offended by slobs in the office, and try to stamp it out through the fiat they've been contracted to provide.

[ValentinesDay]

This article sounds like a script from "The Office"!!

[muawiyah]

Look, every office worker with a serious "paper flow" knows, sequentially, by date of aging, exactly where every single document is that he or she has to work.

Clearing the desk messes up the sort and leads to inefficiency as people search fruitlessly for lost documents.

If it's outa'sight it's outa'mind, and the work will never get done.

Consultants are another reason why the Second Amendment was devised and given such prominance in the Constitution.

[Gorzaloon]

This obsession with clear desks belies my experience. I've known plenty of administrative workers whose offices are a complete mess, and know every scrap of paper in the room and get things done like gangbusters.

Same here. We had an anal-type who once at a meeting preached "A cluttered desk bespeaks a cluttered mind".

I asked, "What does an EMPTY desk indicate?"

I think the "rules" mentioned in the article are really an experiment in social psychology. They want to see how far the maze-running mice can be pushed before there is finally an indignant and righteous explosion with great loss of Life.

It MUST be some monsterous experiment- Spy cameras everywhere, fines for Improper Use of the Dustbin, ER employees not allowed to interrupt their lunch for emergencies, a sadistic and murderous National Health. I think I shall take a quick peek at one of the papers right now:

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"Cllr Smith, above, said: "It gets its fair share of anti-social behaviour like the city is getting in general but the firebombing is a step up from the normal."

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"He said: "What gives him the right to verbally abuse me and use my hair colour as an insult?"

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"Almost 1,300 high-risk offenders are living in the community in bail and probation hostels in England and Wales, according to official figures."

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"A THIEF has stolen a urinal from the toilets of a Southampton pub... The man thought to be responsible had casually enjoyed half a pint of Fosters before strolling into the men's toilets and removing the urinal.

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I think our old friends and allies have finally gone bonkers. Maybe the Black Tape Rules will finally get them to start throwing tea into the Harbour!

[c-b 1]

A tidy desk is the sign of a sick mind.

The bean counters would have a heart attack if they saw my desk.