This ! This happened to me when I was a kid . My room was in the basement of our house and there were always bugs but I never thought anything of it . until one night when I woke up to hear scraping in my ear . I freaked the fuck out and tried EVERYTHING to get it out . Ended up going to the hospital , it was an earwig and to this day I cannot sleep without covering my ears . <| sep |> Trash , minimize or remove , helps alot . Cables , so example your power strip under desk . You could get a cable management rack for under desk . Random ideas . Led light strips to spruce up the dark atmosphere a bit <| sep |> Here in Norway at least the employers are required by law to make sure you use your vecation . And if an employee regardsless choose to work instead of using his vecation he is not allowed to recive pay for those weeks . So people normally don ' t get upset if people use their vecation . We are a hardworking and productive country , but we also value free time so we don ' t look down on people enjoying their life . It also helps that the majority of people use 34 weeks of their vecation between late june and early august to make the best of our short summer here in the north . So in the summer its the norm that our country grinds to a stop and everyone is on vecation .