Cleanliness is next to godliness, but also laziness (apparently).
Apparently, having a messy desk in work is a sign that you’re a harder worker than the lad who keeps his stapler locked away in a drawer and his papers nicely filed away.
Who knew?
Professor Eric Abrahamson, author of A Perfect Mess, says that the chaos at a person’s work station is usually a sign that there’s lots of hard work getting done.
It’s not at all a sign that they never learned to clean up after themselves and that the banana skin that’s been slowly decomposing for three weeks will magically throw itself in the bin. Apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwOZo11eo4Y
Abrahamson told the Telegraph: “Mess isn’t necessarily the absence of order.
“You see this phenomenon at a higher level in places like Silicon Valley. You have a lot of different companies working near each other and that creates new ideas.
“A messy desk can be a highly effective prioritising and accessing system.
“On a messy desk, the more important, urgent work tends to stay close by and near the top of the clutter, while the safely ignorable stuff tends to get buried to the bottom or near the back, which makes perfect sense.”
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