Less than a month later, it is completely covered with papers, books ... CareerBuilder.com survey finds that 16% of workers say their desks are 75% or more covered with work and other materials.

Messy desks may not be as detrimental as they appear ... write lead Jia Liu of the University of Groningen in a paper published in the Journal of Consumer Research. 'This practice is based on ...

Piles of papers sheathe her workspace ... Does a clean desk make you more productive? Our collective messy desks and time spent looking for misplaced items costs corporate America $177 billion ...

How do neat people cope at work when the person in the next cubicle or desk is messy ... desks—except one. Co-founder Jonathan Wasserstrum's desk and the floor around it are strewed with paper ...

Those with messy desks often stumble upon serendipitous connections between disparate documents. Don’t believe there’s a benefit? According to Abrahamson and Freedman, desk-paper mess helped ...

Is your desk overflowing with scraps of paper, coffee cups ... also found that people with a messy desk are more prone to risk taking while those at cleaner desks tend to follow strict rules ...

‘On the other hand, these people are also perceived as lacking the creativity or personality that people with messy desks have ... Is your desk covered in papers and packaging?

"We were thinking about doing a paper showing how being tidy makes ... Not a lot of researchers have taken up the banner of messy desks, so there's not much to compare this work with, but the ...

Are you too messy? Instead of a filing cabinet ... Piles of clutter that amass on unkempt desks may just be repositories for "safely ignorable stuff." In other words, if it looks like trash ...

It's a chance for you to straighten up those yellowing stacks of paper, or finally dump that ... people who kept their desks clean were more likely to "do the right thing." like: make charitable ...

Among them: You can have a messy desk, and there’s no one—or, at least, no colleague—around to judge. In this new world, even neatniks might want to let the papers pile up. Studies show that ...