I'm a fan of the Marie Kondo way of life, the Japanese have got life sorted for sure. This book will not disappoint if you are in a rut, buried under paper or feeling overwhelmed. Start tackling your state of play in small steps. Great book and some life changing solutions, if you want them. If you don't then it's a good read and may help understand someone else's behaviour at work or at home. Thank you #NetGalley for the e-book to review.

Overall this book was ok but if you have read other books by Marie Kondo I'm not too sure you need to read this one as it seem repetitive. It's also important to note that she isn't the only author of the book.

Overall I didn't come away with a lot of new information and ideas to put in practice.

As much as I love Marie Kondo and here tidying methods I've seen on the Netflix series, I was quite disappointed with this book.

I felt too much time was spent on waffle and not enough on the actual methods to do anything. The most I took away from this was to store my paperwork upright, so I'll be off to buy some storage soon to sort out my personal papers. Otherwise, I was left underwhelmed by the whole book.

I received this book from Netgalley in return for an honest review.

This is a practical book combining tips for tidying physically (Marie Kondo’s method!) but also about the non-physical aspects of work: meetings, emails, and even MS Teams. I found particularly useful the thoughts on organising files on my computer. In our new world of remote working this is a really useful guide to how tidy things could be!

I am not a devotee of Marie Kondo, and even though I was aware of the hype around the KonMari method, I never truly looked into it. Until now.

I reached for "Joy at Work", expecting something more than a manual that instructs you how to fold your socks properly. I admit, I was curious about combining the concept of tidying up and work, especially the non-physical aspect of it. Did this book deliver? Partially, yes. There were quite a few interesting bits about the spark joy aspect of working. I also appreciated the realistic approach to what tidying up can fix and what it simply cannot, as it's not a miraculous cure to feeling unhappy or unfulfilled at work.

However, this book is aimed at a specific class of people who work - people who have the privilege of working in the office environment, are running their own businesses, or are freelancing. The authors are not touching the service industry, manual labourers and other professionals who are not desk-bound. It's almost like a dark diagnosis on who is allowed to experience joy at work. Maybe it stems from the fact that minimum-wage and service industry working environments are not familiar to the authors and thus they didn't want to risk sounding patronising, but I found this silence quite telling.

There are some things that I had already read in the two previous books and others that could be applied basically only in a work context, but the work context should collaborate in this sense, which is not always possible.

Ci sono alcune cose che avevo giá letto nei due libri precedenti ed altre che in effetti potrebbero essere applicate fondamentalmente solo in un contesto lavorativo, ma il contesto lavorativo dovrebbe collaborare in tal senso, il che non é sempre possibile, anzi.

thanks to netgalley and the publisher for approving me for an eARC of this book.

once again, marie kondo helps out! i like reading marie kondo books and now that i'm officially a graduate this book came at a good time for me. also recommended to many colleagues and people i know, because i know it'll be helpful to a multitude of people.