Is your desk tidy at work?

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Or cluttered with paperwork amd stationery?
Does your line manager ever comment on it or leave you be?

Mines pretty messy with piles of paper everywhere. I don't have any desk drawers or shelves etc though so it's very hard to tidy it! I need to be able to lay my hands on stuff quickly.

I would say you are a teacher. I'm a TA and lucky enough to have a desk area, I clear it and wipe it down every day before I leave.
I work with a mix of people, some who like a clear desk and others who have piles and piles of paper from lessons which they keep 'just in case'.
I don't mind keeping the paper but I don't want it all over my work space.

Correct. The only times we have been told to tidy it up is when they think Ofsted are due!

My desk has a stationery holder for pens, a 2 tiered in tray for loose paper and a cardboard unit thing for folders that I keep worksheets in. The two screen computer is what I think makes it look more cluttered in my opinion.

Students' work is kept locked in a filing cabinet.

I've been hot decking for the past 20 years.... so my whole working life. Not allowed personal items on the desk and has to be clear for the next person.

Oh and can be reported if desks aren't left today and empty.

We hot desk, nothing is allowed on your desk, although people do tend to gravitate towards their ‘own’ desk - just makes it easier to find people. Even our CEO doesn’t have a desk. We have a locker if we want to leave anything at work.

Hot desk so it's always minimalist.

I worked another place with a clear desk policy and everything would be scooped into plastic bins and left in the kitchen once a week. Always mountains of shoes.

We have a clean desk policy mainly for security but also so they can be easily cleaned. Non-confidential things can be pinned on the boards between the desks or pin boards/white boards in individual offices.

Another hot-desker. For about 10 years now. All paperless. Nothing on desks at end of day except the docking station, keyboard and mouse.

Used to have tons of paper, stationery, random clutter and a PC. Seems weird now.

I'm lucky if I can see my desk 😂I'm a science technician in a school, and the teachers wander in with anything that has been left in a lab - random equipment, leftover cover work, lost property - and just dump it on my desk instead of putting it where it belongs. I tidy it up at the end of each term or when there's a landslide, whichever happens first !

Mine is tidy ish. It's tidier than most of my colleagues' desks!

My actual desktop is very tidy, my laptop desktop is a fucking disgrace!

Mine’s very tidy and I clean it down every couple of days too. Complete contrast to my house!
I’m naturally disorganised though and an untidy desk would just tip me over the edge into chaos.
As to my line managers opinion, they can seriously keep it to themselves, I’ve seen the state of their office!

Yes, I have a pen pot and a photo on it all the time, I only have paper work I’m actively working on out, once I’m done I put it away.

Yes very tidy - it is used by other people if I'm teaching or on another campus.

My desk is a tip. I looks like several packets of post-it notes have exploded all over it. It also seems like it’s a communal dumping ground for random crap that no one knows what else to do with.

Anything confidential is kept in locked drawers (that are also a tip).

My computer desk top is a disgrace too. Every now and then I drag everything into a folder, but then just start saving shit randomly to the desk top again. I also have about 65 windows open at anyone time.

Every few months I get sick of it and tidy it up but it doesn’t take long to get messy again

I do find the mess deters people from nicking my pens/post its/etc as they can’t actually find them 😂

What desk?! We have hot desked for a long time. Even people with fixed desks cannot leave anything out overnight

This is also me.