PC possession

[mejinks]

Its funny how people react in situations like this. You spend most of your life at your desk, so you start to personalise it with photos/objects etc and when someone else is sitting there, its like they are sat in your lounge and you feel miffed.

I was able to observe this a while ago when I was working for the HMRC and there was a rule that no more than 2 photos were allowed on everyones desk and that at the end of the day, everything had to be laid out exactly (phone goes here, mouse here etc) and there was to be no other personal decoration such as drawings by kids.

Eventually, a study was done by psychologists due to the amount of people who wanted to be moved to a different department without these rules and those who went off sick with stress. It pointed out that if you sterilise the working environment, you cause the worker to be stressed and less productive, so they relaxed the rules slightly.