The expression that a cluttered desk — room, home, whatever — is a sign of a cluttered mind may not ring true for you, but a dirty and unstimulating office? That’s not doing you or your fellow employees’ brain health any favors, according to a study published last month in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Florida State University’s Joseph Grzywacz, the study’s lead researcher, wrote that there are both seen and unseen things in the workplace that can impact on workers’ cognitive function, namely cleanliness and complexity.
