Clear desk policy

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The soul of your corporation’s neurotic personality laid bare. That, or its attempt to treat you as a fungible, replaceable unit who can be clipped in or clipped out as the organisation’s fiscal requirements can require.

Well, come on: was a meaningful corporate secret really ever stolen exclusively by dint of inattention to a tidiness of one’s desk?

Oh, really? Can you prove it?

How, in this age of the new normal, does one enforce the clear desk policy at home? There’s zero chance in the JC’s ramshackle cubby-hole, let me assure you.

See also

• New normal
• Bring your own premises
• Confidentiality agreement