20 October 2011
Lawyers don't scrub up well in survey
Lawyers have the messiest desks, according to a swab tests survey commissioned by office supplies company Viking.
The legal profession was on a par with accountants and IT workers for having bacteria-ridden keyboards and potentially dangerous germs beneath their telephones. Swabs were collected from 300 desks for the survey.
Staphylococcus, which can cause food poisoning if allowed to grow on food, was found on 60 per cent of the desks. Half of the desks showed traces of Micrococcus, which causes sweat to have an unpleasant odour.
