Clean desk principle
The "clean desk principle" is gaining popularity. A tidy desk improves productivity. And there are many other reasons to implement the clean desk policy as well. Working with privacy-sensitive or confidential information, the ready availability of information during important decision-making processes and the prevention of fraud and misuse of information are a few.
How to start?
- A clean desk starts by allocating fixed storage locations to all information and materials.
- Information that is to be available to different people should be put in a central location.
- Information that is to be stored for retrieval at a later date, or which serves as reference material, should also be filed centrally.