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Hot-desking is awful. I was going to say it's the worst of both worlds, but it's actually even worse than that. You're not around your teammates, you can't "mov
by _moof 3y ago
Hot-desking is awful. I was going to say it's the worst of both worlds, but it's actually even worse than that. You're not around your teammates, you can't "move in" to your desk, and you have to commute. Honestly, what is the point? Either give me my own desk or let me WFH.
- curiousgal 3y agoMy company uses a very simple system. Each team gets assigned an area that only they can book. For example a team of 15 people get a cluster of 10 desks. That solves it.
- pjc50 3y agoMy company uses an even simpler system. Each team of 15 people gets assigned 15 desks.
- muzani 3y agoBut that's less efficient than 10 desks for 15 people!
- pjc50 3y agoIs it? Of course, neither of us nor the company really has hard knowledge of what is "more efficient", because despite being entirely driven by profit metrics and A/B testing there is still no real way to measure productivity for knowledge workers. And even if there was, employee misery wouldn't be part of the metric unless it measurably affected retention.
- seanhunter 3y agoBut that in turn is less efficient than 0 desks for 15 people. Thinking about it, why stop there? Negative desking is the future. A team of 15 could have -15 desks (or less, if they are high performers). Super efficient.
- m_rpn 3y agoI hope that no CEO reads your comment otherwise all the guys that have mandatory RTO are screwed XD
- muzani 3y agoThe most common implementation for negative desking is having everyone working from home
- seanhunter 3y agoThat's just zerodesking. For negative desking the team has to turn their hotdesking area into a wework.
- cwilkes 3y agoI’m envisioning carnival barkers trying to get other teams to use up their -15 seats as if they don’t sell out they have to pay the company a rental fee.
- Gigachad 3y agoWorks if people aren’t coming in every day. We have set days where certain teams come in. You’ll be sitting next to the people you work with and the company doesn’t need as many desks
- loco5niner 3y agobut they cram them in like factory chickens
- unbeli 3y agoWhat does it solve though? If the purpose of RTO is being together with your team, and you don't have enough desks to bring the team in the office at the same time, this solves basically nothing.
- curiousgal 3y agoHybrid working. Everyone has certain days that they work from home.
- dagw 3y agoThe company I work does hot-desking, but it is implicitly also divided into groupings. All the people in each team sit in the same part of the office each day and hotdesk within that group of desks. There are maybe 1 time in 50 that I show up and there are no desks free in my teams part of the office. One other potential advantage with hot-desking is that you can have different zones with different rules. Working on a project where you need to talk with your colleague a lot during the day, sit in the 'talking' zone. Need to be left alone in silence for 8 hours straight, move to the 'quite' zone.