Slobs Found To Be More Productive Than Neatniks

writertype writes "Are you a slob? Do you pile papers on top of folders on top of game boxes? Here's the thing that those anal neat people can't even conceive of: you're more productive than they are. That's the conclusion of "A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder," by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman, a new book that argues neatness is overrated, costs money, wastes time and quashes creativity."

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Productivity Shroductivity

[demon driver]

So people still let their personal worthiness be judged on their job productivity. While the world's employment figures of the last three decades don't show anything but the fact that productivity is the problem, not the solution. But no, everyone still seems to even derive some kind of part self-deluding, part self-destructive pride out of their being even more and more effectively exploited - whether with a cluttered or a most tidy desk...

Cheers,
d. d.