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Desk check

Associated Press
Published January 28, 2005

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Observe your desk: Tidy or disastrous?

A worker survey suggests the state of your workspace might offer some insight into your personality, based on your income, gender and educational level.

The more you earn, the messier you might be, as only 11 percent of people making more than $75,000 annually described themselves as "neat freaks," but 66 percent of those earning less than $35,000 claimed that description.

Also, college graduates said they're messier: Sixteen percent claimed to be tidy desk workers, while nearly a third of high school graduates (29 percent) said they're neat-desk folks.

Older workers were messier, too. Slightly more than a third, 36 percent, claimed a clean desk, while 60 percent of workers 18-24 years old said they keep their spaces organized.

The results are from a telephone survey of 2,039 adults in May conducted for staffing firm Ajilon Office, part of global staffing firm Adecco Group.

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