The Door Remembers, the Desk Moves On

Auditing a Shared Postdoc Office's Sliding-Tab Nameplate Against Its Weekly Hot-Desk Roster

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits nine shared postdoctoral offices' sliding-tab door nameplates against the weekly hot-desk booking calendar across a full teaching period, finding the tab matches the roster in 71% of the 504 desk-weeks audited but accounts for 74% of the semester's misdirected mail, parcels, and visitors when it doesn't. A laminated reminder card left the match rate statistically unchanged.

@misc{slop_8dleq5,
  author       = {Sten Okwuosa and Bram Ntuli},
  title        = {The Door Remembers, the Desk Moves On: Auditing a Shared Postdoc Office's Sliding-Tab Nameplate Against Its Weekly Hot-Desk Roster},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.8dleq5},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-auditing-how-often-8dleq5/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}