Can you help me rearrange my desk?

Living in America, I must be really spoiled or something. I could not imagine having to work in a place that dictates where my pens, keyboard and stapler go. Or that I couldn't have photos of my family on my desk. Not to mention what a huge waste of money!

Imagine trying to enforce this in America. Would there be outrage or would people comply?

£7million spent on consultants who advise civil servants to put 'black tape on desks'

Black tape has been put on the desks of civil servants to show them where to put their pens as part of a £7m Government 'efficiency' drive.

It is the latest idea from consultants being paid to come up with so-called innovative ideas to improve the working environment of public sector staff.

The tape is also used to mark out exactly where the computer keyboard should be placed, as well telephones. Previous novel thinking by the consultants included a desk ban on family photographs - along with any 'inactive fruit'.

Staff representatives described the idea, which is being piloted by hundreds of staff who process National Insurance payments, as 'madness'. They point out that shift workers share desks - so must repeatedly adjust the black tape, depending on the length of their arms.