Ewww. Why you should wipe down your desk now!

I sometimes have to get very creative in the approach I take to motivate someone to clear off their desk. If you’ve brought piles into 2020 and need an extra push to finally zap them, this might be the incentive you need to clear them off (or to at least remove them just to put them back):

“Dr. Charles P. Gerba established some years ago that household germs are not always most numerous where you would expect them to be. In one famous survey he measured bacterial content in different rooms in various houses and found that typically the cleanest surfaces of all in the average house was the toilet seat. That is because it is wiped down with disinfectant more than any other surface. By contrast the average desktop has five times more bacteria living on it than the average toilet seat.” 
- Bill Bryson, At Home