B Read the report again and decides which of the statements are true of false: 1. Anita Fuchsberger wishes she had not had to take the place of the Sales Manager in San 2. Anita Fuchsberger reports on the development of the business furniture market in the past few 3. The newly restructured company had a good year 4. Production facilities were improved in America and Italy 5. There were more orders in Spain during the year 6. The success of the Spanish subsidiary was connected to the change in the business climate 7. European trade developments helped Relaxo companies to expand the number of new products they were able to sell 8. Anita Fuchs Berger is not sure whether it will be an advantage to introduce new products in the next few years 9. Relaxo Incorporated are likely to do less well in the USa in the future than they have this year The most important market development for the UK-based company was the introduction of the alhambra disking range 4.5 Rule Number One: Clear that desk Reading Read this article and then fill each gap below with one word. RULE NUMBER ONE: CLEAR THAT DESK If you desk is piled high with letters faxes, forms, memos, reports print-outs and sticky message slips, you might believe all this paperwork is a sign of how busy you are. But acc to Declan Treacy, cluttered desks lead to lost information, distractions, missed opportunitis stress and not a little procrastination's founded and runs the Clear Your Desk Organization and organists the annual International Clear Your Desk Day which this year is being held n April 24 His arguments for uncluttered desks are strong. We pile between 300 and 500 pieces of paper on the desk at any one time, a load equivalent to a 40-hour backlog of work. With 45 minutes a day wasted on frustrating searches for lost paperwork on and around the desk, it is unfortunate that the cluttered desk is the accepted norm in most organizations, he says. Treacy holds seminars to help companies organize their own Clear Your Desk days, when everyone from the senior managers to secretaries learn how to tackle paperwork more effectively Paper has become the foundation on which our organizations are built and at the beginning of the 1990s office workers around the world were using more than 15 million miles of paper every da Over two billion business litters are posted daily worldwide. In the US, companies have over 300 billion pies of paper on file While a large proportion of this paperwork is important, we have reached a situation where most organisations, both public and private, are suffocating under mountains of unwanted paper. The average British worker hoards 40 hours of unfinished paperwork at any one time; each piece of paper on the desk will distract us up to five times a day; 68 per cent of office workers admit habitually handling paperwork several times before deciding what to do with it; worldwide, computer printers produce over two and a half million pieces of paper every minute: 60 million photocopies are made every hour; 30 billion faxes are sent every year; and we hoard an average 20,000 pieces of paper in the office So what is someone to do if they have what looks like the eU paper mountain on their desk? Dump it in the bin? Well, yes, says Treacy. Or rather, he suggests following four simple rules, and dumping the stuff is number four. Rule number three is file it. Number tow suggests passing it to someone else: number one is the rule no one will like act on it What you shouldnt do is add to the pile of paper that's already there, says Treacy: "EigS cent of all paperwork is eventually discarded, but it causes an awful lot of trouble before tha happens. Unfortunately, most executives believe the myth that an empty desk is the sign of an unproductive mind. How wrong can you be? Companies cannot afford to let people work fromB. Read the report again and decides which of the statements are true of false: 1. Anita Fuchsberger wishes she had not had to take the place of the Sales Manager in San Sebastian. 2. Anita Fuchsberger reports on the development of the business furniture market in the past few years. 3. The newly restructured company had a good year. 4. Production facilities were improved in America and Italy. 5. There were more orders in Spain during the year. 6. The success of the Spanish subsidiary was connected to the change in the business climate. 7. European trade developments helped Relaxo companies to expand the number of new products they were able to sell. 8. Anita Fuchs Berger is not sure whether it will be an advantage to introduce new products in the next few years. 9. Relaxo Incorporated are likely to do less well in the USA in the future than they have this year. 10. The most important market development for the UK-based company was the introduction of the Alhambra disking range. 4.5 Rule Number One: Clear that desk Reading Read this article and then fill each gap below with one word. RULE NUMBER ONE: CLEAR THAT DESK If you desk is piled high with letters faxes, forms, memos, reports print-outs and sticky-backed message slips, you might believe all this paperwork is a sign of how busy you are. But according to Declan Treacy, cluttered desks lead to lost information, distractions, missed opportunities, high stress and not a little procrastination’s founded and runs the Clear Your Desk Organization and organists the annual International Clear Your Desk Day which this year is being held n April 24. His arguments for uncluttered desks are strong. “We pile between 300 and 500 pieces of paper on the desk at any one time, a load equivalent to a 40-hour backlog of work. With 45 minutes a day wasted on frustrating searches for lost paperwork on and around the desk, it is unfortunate that the cluttered desk is the accepted norm in most organizations,” he says. Treacy holds seminars to help companies organize their own Clear Your Desk days, when everyone from the senior managers to secretaries learn how to tackle paperwork more effectively. Paper has become the foundation on which our organizations are built and at the beginning of the 1990s office workers around the world were using more than 15 million miles of paper every day. Over two billion business litters are posted daily worldwide. In the US, companies have over 300 billion pies of paper on file. While a large proportion of this paperwork is important, we have reached a situation where most organisations,both public and private, are suffocating under mountains of unwanted paper. The average British worker hoards 40 hours of unfinished paperwork at any one time; each piece of paper on the desk will distract us up to five times a day; 68 per cent of office workers admit to habitually handling paperwork several times before deciding what to do with it; worldwide, computer printers produce over two and a half million pieces of paper every minute; 60 million photocopies are made every hour; 30 billion faxes are sent every year; and we hoard an average 20,000 pieces of paper in the office. So what is someone to do if they have what looks like the EU paper mountain on their desk? Dump it in the bin? Well, yes, says Treacy. Or rather, he suggests following four simple rules, and dumping the stuff is number four. Rule number three is file it. Number tow suggests passing it to someone else; number one is the rule no one will like: act on it. What you shouldn’t do is add to the pile of paper that’s already there, says Treacy: “Eighty per cent of all paperwork is eventually discarded, but it causes an awful lot of trouble before that happens. Unfortunately, most executives believe the myth that an empty desk is the sign of an unproductive mind. How wrong can you be? Companies cannot afford to let people work from