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Yeah, I think of it the same way :/ This will likely make hot-desking the norm (already is at plenty of places). On a selfish note, I already have a house in
by maurys 6y ago
Yeah, I think of it the same way :/
This will likely make hot-desking the norm (already is at plenty of places).
On a selfish note, I already have a house in a tech hub, so I'd love for things to go back to how they were pre-covid.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoAh hot desking building services wet dream -) only problem is people hate it, the human animal likes its own space and we each have our own preference. And for the near future these desks will need cleaning after each use.
- touisteur 6y agoAnd you get to do it, in addition to your commute, and anyway you'll also clean it up before you use it. I'm not sure why we all can't seem to jump to the foregone conclusion : COVID-19 will be with us for at least one year, and since many people won't trust vaccines, it's gonna take some time to be safe-safe. Hot desking is another fuck-you to workers, a new low for people as 'interchangeable' cogs. Snowcrash prophecy. Subsidizing for a simple cheap desk at home + electricity + Internet for 1 or 2 years is less expensive than any office redesign or move they'll attempt, just the price of the cardboard boxes and moving company exceeds it... It feels like a psychological trap that no-one wants to switch to 'the new normal' and be done with it...
- C1sc0cat 6y agoAh a 250,000 a year SWE will be cleaning desks :-) and to hospital standards.
- raxxorrax 6y agoI would assume the grunt developer in SV probably will suffer from it at some point, if they don't already. Glad that it is pretty unusual where I live, apart from sales where it already is quite established. Quite the fluctuation on these positions to be honest, but I don't see it for most engineering professions or even any higher position where organizing your work is more complicated. The only advantage is cost of space and some failure safety for hardware defects, although many have secondary devices already.
- chrischen 6y agoYea I agree that one of the big problems with hot desks is not being able to leave things. If it's a public hot-desking situation you have also the problem of theft (it happens—even in Japan WeWorks).
- wdb 6y agoEven in normal offices that do hot-desking stuff get stolen. Still don't understand why colleagues what to still stuff.
- randycupertino 6y agoIt's not always intentionally or done with malice, either. But the amount of kvetching over someone's specific type of post-its or their favorite chair being moved to another location was a constant issue at a hotdesking company I worked at. Also things like certain laptops needing different types of docks and cell phone chargers being there or being missing. They ended up going to the same rotation of people shifting through the same space, which sort of cut down on the issue, but all the employees still hated it. I just wanted a drawer to keep some tylenol and my water bottle in. Once I moved to a different company and had my own personal assigned cube (which was big enough to do yoga in and had it's own sliding door!) I felt like I'd landed in paradise and my cube seemed so cozy and luxurious. I know "cubical hell" and "cube farms" were the example old fashioned out of style business layouts, but I really loved working in my cube and was so productive there. If a coworker was being loud or I wanted to have a small team meeting I could just hold it in my cube and we can closed the door. Now that I wfh full time, I miss it!