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Monkey Business

It is said that when you would put enough monkeys behind a typewriter in the end they would produce something like Shakespearian prose. According to a test done by Plymouth university giving six monkeys a computer and produced five pages of text, consisting of mainly the letter S, and later the letters A, J, L and M crept in. OK, ok, QED : monkeys don’t write works of shakespeare. So what do monkeys do in an office then? Well, Pan-kun, Japan’s favourite chimp does pretty much what many people do in the office: ignoring strangers, wasting paper, and trying to become invisible.

 

Office diseases: 8. Clutter

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Clutter is a class of diseases characterized by uncontrolled aggregation of paper and stuff on one of the employee’s desks and the ability of this stuff to invade other desks and office areas, either by direct growth onto adjacent tables or desks (invasion) or by migration of the stuff to distant sites (metastasis). This unregulated growth is caused by a series of acquired or inherited mutations of alien files within storage units (often from employees who have long left the company, or are still there but have been long forgotten), damaging  information that define the business functions and removing normal control of the business operations.

Treatment:
It should not be confused with Functionalitis, The first step in getting treatment for the disease is getting a correct diagnosis. This is important to do quickly because our WorkVitamins research has shown that the sooner you get diagnosed and treated the better the long-term outcome.

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