According to new research we spend 35.7 million days a year looking for missing stuff, such as paperwork, among the piles of clutter on our desks. That’s the equivalent of 1.5 days per employee per year!
Men over 45 were found to be most untidy and 16 to 24 year olds the neatest!
Ian admitted that he was a culprit of a messy desk and posted the evidence on twitter this morning. He has promised to tidy up his desk and to post photos of the clean desk by next week.
DESK 1 pic.twitter.com/FKoWDQrAye
— Ian Dempsey (@IanDempsey) October 3, 2013
Here is SOME of the reaction from Breakfast Show listeners:
Morning Ian man with clean desk has drawers full of crap! Ha ha Chris
Paul O'Sullivan - you'll find a mouse in there but it won't belong to a computer!!!!
john o donoghue - ah jaysus iano will u get 1 of the women there to tidy that for u
Trevor McEvoy - There's a bottle of beer behind the computer monitor on that desk.... Who's desk is it??
Hi Ian, a messy desk is a sign if creativity.
Dee Ryan - It's the #tidytrinity , what r ur car & bedroom like right now? Can never get 3 organised same time
Helen H - oh dear lord... #carnage
@IanDempsey you need help Ian. And I'm a complete slob.
Laineymoo - I'm with @louiseduffyshow the joy of cleaning that up would be phenomenal...
Mary Anderson - why isn't there crime tape around it till csi unit gets there
Siobhan Duffy -OMG which little piggy are you? #iand
Jennifer McCann - Words fail me!
Jack Conneely - at least you can still sit on your chair... #babysteps.
Derek Troy -JESUS H CHRIST IAN THATS NOT A DESK ITS A HORIZONTAL BIN.
And Ian found that men really are different to women today when he discovered the joy that some ladies get out of cleaning up a mess. Take Louise 'Monica' Duffy for instance:
@IanDempsey I'll pay you to let me sort that out. PLEASE? http://t.co/wnWhkcIOVD
— Louise Duffy (@louiseduffyshow) October 3, 2013
The research was conducted by company Brother.
