> On 9-7-2014 13:45, Stephen wrote:
>> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>>>  From this whole exercise I must conclude that the "Clean Desk" movement
>>> has gotten nowhere at all :-)
>>
>>
>> I don't know about that. From what I've read here everyone seems quite
>> regulated. Mine is so cluttered it is like an archilogical dig finding
>> things. I
>> have even misplaced a dwarf wolly mamoth, somewhere.
>
> The Clean Desk Policy was very strict. Except for a screen, a keyboard,
> a mouse and a phone, nothing was allowed after working hours. It meant
> you had to re-create your own junk every morning and clean it up before
> leaving. The bright idea (for which managers are sometimes known) behind
> the concept was that a "cluttered desk revealed a cluttered mind" etc
> etc. I suspect that the ideal was a permanently pristine desk during
> working hours.
>
> Ah, but you know all that I am sure.
>
> Thomas
>

At my work, the "clean desk policy" was to prevent confidential 
information from falling into the wrong hands, which makes sense at 
first, but quickly veered into GATTACA levels of paranoia, since going 
through someone's rolodeck might reveal which customers and which 
suppliers she's working with and may give a competitor information about 
deals she's pursuing (assuming, of course, that the janitor is really a 
competitor in disguise), so they enforced rules such as "no telephone 
numbers must be visible" - which meant that depending on how anal 
retentive the person doing the evening workplace audit was, you could 
get written up for having the city phonebook on your bookshelf, or a 
business card from your dentist.

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