How Tidiness & Maintenance Affect Stress

If your environment at work or home is dirty, uncomfortable or neglected, then this can cause stress. Similarly, if your living or working area is untidy and chaotic, then this can be distracting and can make it more difficult to achieve your goals.

Not only is a dirty, dingy working environment unpleasant to work in. It is also damaging to the organization that inhabits it. What new member of staff wants to work in an unpleasant environment? Who wants to continue working in one?

In the scale of all business expenses, it does not cost much to maintain premises to a reasonable standard. Nor does it cost much to bring in plants and pictures and to do the small things that make a place more of a pleasure to work in.

Having mentioned tidiness, it is important not to be dogmatic about it. While it can be very difficult to coordinate many tasks successfully in an untidy work area, it is perfectly possible to work on one task very effectively. The early ‘90s trend of clear desk thinking ignored one of the most important lessons about human beings: Different people doing different jobs work most effectively in different ways.

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