{"id":5519,"date":"2015-12-01T05:43:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T05:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keblog.demoapp.xyz\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2022-10-19T03:46:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T03:46:15","slug":"the-science-of-workspace-disorganization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/id\/the-science-of-workspace-disorganization","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Workspace (Dis)Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"

The battle of neat vs messy is no more.\u00a0Kathleen Vohs is a consumer psychologist and marketing professor from the University of Minnesota and she made a\u00a0study on physical orderliness and disorderliness<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and their outward effects. Vohs found that\u00a0students made to work in a clean and organized environment were “cued to ‘do the right thing\u2019\u2014that which is expected of you.”<\/p>\n

Conversely, the\u00a0freer \u00a0and more unkempt environments inspired the breaking of tradition “which can produce fresh insights.” Both subject groups were asked if they would donate to a charity and were offered a snack\u2014either an apple or a chocolate bar\u2014 while they thought about it. The clean room subjects showed higher inclinations to be charitable and eat healthier by choosing the apple.<\/p>\n

The subjects incubated in the messy setting, working on desks scattered with paper, went for\u00a0the chocolate. On an institutional level, different industries require a mix of people in order to remain competitive.<\/p>\n

In fact, there have been recent findings that employees with varied desk organization patterns (one week neat, the next messy) have also shown to have a much more varied skill repertoire which make them appealing to potential employers.<\/p>\n

There are simple\u00a0things you can do to your office, desk, or cubicle that can help you be more productive in an environment that is conducive to you and your workspace style.<\/p>\n

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