A British telesales company recently sent off its workers’ computer keyboards for analysis to a nutrition expert to find out exactly what its staff were doing at their desks in terms of eating habits. Unsurprisingly, the analysis of the detritus stuck in and among their keys revealed that most staff were snacking heavily on sandwiches, cakes, pasties and the like while working at their desk. Splashes of tea and coffee were also commonly observed. Fragments of crisps, grains of sugar and nail clippings (toe and finger!) too emerged from within many of the keyboards after a good shake.
But, never mind the snacking and personal grooming. A male pubic hair found stuck under one worker’s "ESC" key has not yet led to a dismissal. The company, however, is planning to move to an open plan office rather than its current cubicle-based layout to reduce the alleged, ahem, "time-wasting" that was presumably underway in at least one workstation prior to the analysis.