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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a clean desk" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a workspace that is organized and free of clutter.
Example: "Having a clean desk can significantly improve your productivity and focus while working."
Alternatives: "an organized workspace" or "a tidy desk".
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A clean desk is a clean mind for me.
To reconsider Einstein, a clean desk may not signify an empty mind — rather, a cluttered desk may make a mind too full.
But Yu said he spends more time in his study, another stark room with a laptop computer on a clean desk.
A new manager will want a clean desk, just as Bobby Robson dispensed with a late-pomp Kevin Keegan when he took the job.
I could quite easily tidy up, of course, but I like the magpie-nest clutter and I think there's something a bit sterile, creatively speaking, about a clean desk.
Fink: Clear your desk at least once a month because a clean desk is a clean brain.
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Consider instituting a clean-desk policy to govern the tidiness of shared work spaces.
Though this won't solve the problem entirely, giving people something to focus on, like a nice, clean desk or an impressive bookcase, instead of your chair of stuffed animals, can help your room look more grown up.
And that a perfectly clean desk can be as inefficient as a messy one?
Soon, you will be able to place everything onto a nice clean desk.
By that I mean don't do extra stupid time-filler stuff, like clean an already clean desk to just look busy (if you're really that desperate for something to do, start making a list of side-hustles, catch up on thank-you notes, or get going on your screenplay).
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