Like it or not, our offices say a lot about us.
I once worked for a company
with a clean desk policy.
At the end of the day, everyone’s desk
(from the mailroom guy’s to the CEO’s)
had to be clean.
A clean desk, an organized mind, I was told.
Is that a goal to aspire to?
It depends.
As associate professor of psychology
Sam Gosling says
“You may want your lawyer
to be very organized
and have a clean desk,
but if you are meeting with someone,
perhaps from advertising,
you would want their desk
to be covered in papers and ideas
that represent his ability to be creative.”