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  An article by Harvard Business Review  HBR ,  by  Boyoun (Grace) Chae    and  Rui (Juliet) Zhu The disorganized accumulation of papers and coffee cups scattered across your desk may help you project the impression that you’re working at full throttle, but in fact it’s probably dragging you down. We’ve found that people sitting at messy desks are less efficient, less persistent, and more frustrated and weary than those at neat desks. But wait, you may say. No one who has worked in a busy office for more than a week can possibly keep a neat desk — the work comes at you too fast. Or you may say that you  like  your mess, that it’s as comforting as a little nest. To which we say yes, it can be challenging to keep a desk neat. And yes, a mess can be comforting, even freeing, in a sense: You don’t have to worry about things becoming disordered, because they’re already disordered. But look at the data: In  one of our experiments , more than 100 undergraduates were exposed either to an unclu

  An article from Harvard business review-  https://hbr.org/2019/03/the-case-for-finally-cleaning-your-desk The physical environment of the workplace has a significant effect on the way that we work. When our space is a mess, so are we. That is certainly true from a simple logistical perspective: we lose precious work minutes every time we go searching for a lost paper on a cluttered desk. The same is true for those of us who have succeeded in becoming paperless at work: one international  survey  showed that information workers lose up to two hours a week fruitlessly searching for lost digital documents. But clutter can also affect us in more indirect ways.  My research  and  that of others  has shown that our physical environments significantly influence our cognition, emotions, and behavior, affecting our decision-making and relationships with others. Cluttered spaces can have negative effects on our stress and anxiety levels, as well as our ability to focus, our eating choices, and