The hot desk problem: do you really have a desk in your office?

UL's Professor Kevin Murphy explores the rise of hot desking, and its impact on businesses and people
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/0723/1396072-hot-desks-hoteling-employees-back-in-office-organisation/

#StudyatUL #Business #HotDesking #Education #University

@IceNine as a part-time contractor worker, I resented the time I lost to #HotDesking at my current agency. Sometime wasted up to 30 minutes trying to find a desk with tech that connected OK. Fortunately a recent review allowed more workers to claim anchor desks for quicker work connections. So much more productive if I don't have to connect afresh and change desk and chair height

Some schools in Aotearoa New Zealand are moving away from #OpenPlan classrooms. Fewer headaches, less distraction, more productivity. Will open plan offices and #HotDesking follow suit? Some workers in government agencies would be keen to have less noise and distraction too
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/132378974/no-more-headaches-schools-removing-openplans-to-reduce-distractions

As we prepare to move from #DMIdk's university style offices to a new open plan office (with #hotdesking 😒) later this year, @TimHarford's podcast on how (not to) #design an office + associated concepts like #power + the ability to influence your own space seems very relevant.

#CautionaryTales #CautionaryTalesPod

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3bNKDJFdns1tPCO07PV3Bo?si=sGGzx9EeTLGFRxxs51u2GQ&dd=1

@nocoursewalks Our CEO has a cat named Sprinkles. Be sure to mention Sprinkles in your interview, and you'll be fine. Sprinkles is one of those hairless nude cats, don't worry, he's hypoallergenic. He will be sitting on your desk Monday through Thursdays but takes a mandatory self-care day on Fridays. That's our new hot-desking policy. #hotdesking #hotlitterboxing #selfcare #sprinkles

What’s going on is a good question indeed.

https://medium.com/@sara_causey/is-it-though-bfb996f52f22

#cronyism #RTO #corporaterealestate #workhubs #hotdesking

I wouldn't actually mind #hotdesking if there wasn't that faction of people who have very possessive ideas about furniture #officelife #ettiquette

Would love to hear from scientists or other academics who currently work in large #openPlan offices with #hotdesking (+ only 70% of the desk space needed means lockers absolutely no items left on the desk overnight).

How do you make it work? The combnation of focused work, close collaboration with some colleagues and lots of online meetings with externals?

What do I need to do now to prepare?

(Also open to job offers...)

Regards: a depressed scientist sho has just seen the future..

#HybridWork and #HotDesking mean I am pulling together the #EDC kit for my backpack, with compact items I used to keep at the office during the before times.

For my backpack I have:

- The smallest hand crank AM/FM radio I could find (it's also a phone charger and flashlight)
- Charging converter
- Mini first aid kit
- Mini compass
- Victorinox Swiss Card
- Lightweight neck gaiter

Almost all of this I already had, and I have used before.

Commuting, dudes. #Prepare for anything.

I was looking at #jobs earlier, and all I could see was one compromise after the other. Imagine! To be comfortable in this capitalist system, I have to spend my time - my life - furthering someone else's capitalist agenda, nationalistic ideals, or otherwise work to concentrate someone else's #power & resources. And the folks who say they do something different appear to all be lying - I suppose someone has to pay them too in the end, how else could they afford my cushy day #rate?

I suppose I could #volunteer, or pay for #learning opportunities and adopt someone else's way of viewing the world for a while. That'll make me feel better! Or I could start walking on someone's road to #spiritual enlightenment and tell myself that, if these people say it's OK, then it must be. Even self-employed as a most #progressive #consultant, #facilitator, #coach, #therapist or - fuck it - #white #shaman #entrepreneur, I help people reflect and #dream for just a moment so that they can get the fuck back to #work. How else could they afford my #competitive hourly rate?

And now I'm getting old! I wish I could say that I'm looking forward to what the next generation will come up with, but then the world is ending so... So perhaps things are just shot to shit, #ragnarok is coming and I'm getting #old

Well, at least I #served a #purpose throughout my life. I fed the leeches at the top by giving them my #time, paying my #taxes, tossing my #vote, and generally being #busy and #good in #fear of not ending up a #bum, in #prison, or worse! At least I wasn't (openly) #racist, I kept my #sexism to my personal relationships and only implicitly supported the #patriarchy by insisting it's not there at all. I'm definitely a #feminist though, I was always terrified of my #mom. And although it really made me feel better to #judge people who were fatter, poorer or weaker than me, I only occasionally shared my true feelings with them. Oh, and not to mention the folks with smaller #dicks - haha! - and #black folks, #women or #queer people, thank Thor and the Lord and the Lady that I'm dying before I can no longer feel #superior to them!

But I wasn't bad. I did enjoy cheering for #BLM, and #XR, go you! For a moment there, I felt like even I was doing something! (Although #UFC and the #worldcup were more fun.) But mostly, I suppose, I mastered the art of shutting the #fuck up, silently enjoying my #safety and my #priviledge, and - oh, this I did really well - quickly inventing new #excuses for my pale & hairy ass in the elevator up to my 28th floor #hotdesking space. Change? How? I mean, it was just never the right time... And hey, my therapist and men's group think I'm alright!

OK, well, it is the time for me to #die now. Fuck #Heaven, fuck #WhiteJesus, fuck #politicians, the #rich and their lackeys the #police & #military, fuck my #priest, and fuck all of my self-help and other educative #preachers and #gurus, and then fuck everyone else who I #blame for my dreadfully #unfulfilling, #unhelpful, #disempowered and #mediocre #white existence

If only I had cared a little less for my own #comfort and a little more for people around me, then maybe I would have become an #anarchist. Alas, it's too late now, my ergonomically certified office chair has ground my #balls into dust

Please send me straight to #Hell because, in all #honesty, it's what we all know I deserve

#HotDesking Person to my right has been mumbling to themself constantly, which is fine, but they just leaned back, rubbed their boobs & moaned a lil bit

#HotDesking
Breathily singing along to their headphone music | Apple (juicy) & crisps | Me | Five-time COVID guy who is coughing & sniffling, no mask, "It's hayfever"

Me: Alea... I'm trying to work.

Alea the Black Cat: Can't hear you.

#HotDesking #AleaTheBlackCat #MastoCats #cats

#HotDesking again, today I am sandwiched between the two loudest men in the world, who naturally are chatting* with each other 🥲

*Yelling amicably

#HotDesking is a fun new world - today the person sitting next to me has taken the whole morning to eat an entire raw, unwashed, sweet potato.

'Fhtill wearing a mafhk hey?' They say, orange spatters landing near my keyboard

@Ben_Steiner Love the view!😍 Now that most of us are part of the COVID #germaphobe generation, I wonder how many companies will implement #HotDesking.

My latest for SearchUnifiedCommunications - Understanding hot desking pros and cons for the hybrid office https://bit.ly/3vzzTFp via @TT_Infra #hybridwork #hotdesking

I love working in the office. Especially as I have my own desk (#hotdesking sucks and should not exist). However, with freezing weather hitting Ireland this week I appreciate that I have the freedom to work from home if I need to.

I think that's what I like about the #wfh #remotework revolution. It should be about choice. If you want to be in the office, you can, but if you need to work from home, you can.