Post your favorite article stating how bad hot desking is.
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The arrogant Executives that want to take away your assigned desk are currently having private office suites constructed and also segregated assigned parking.
Yes, KM will take your assigned desk away, but requires an assigned private office, a dedicated elevator to her private section of her office building, and even an assigned parking space for her car.
Fu-k off you hot desk suck up ingrate. People need some ownership and something to feel accepted and to be valued. That is NOT a "boomer" concept or any other generation concept. The company is treating people like sh-t and you are too steeped in the kool-aid to see that plain decency has left the building!
Ahh, yes. The not-so-little white tracker boxes we wore around our necks. Didn’t they track our IMs, phone calls and emails along with the “connections” that the tracker boxes picked up?
It’s about time everyone felt the misery of what some groups have been feeling for YEARS. Depending upon where you work in the company, you haven’t had a real office since you first stepped foot on the campus in 2015. They called it We3 back in the day and we had MIT scientists doing a study on how “collaboration” occurs when there are no walls and people move around and engage with each other.
Seriously, we had to wear trackers that would count how many “connections” we would have with our colleagues that were then plotted up with all kinds of awesome statistics that illuminated how THIS open-office environment increased productivity, connection, and collaboration and was the wave of the future.
Not recalling how long that study lasted. Probably not long enough! 🤣
Hot Desking has such potentially bad consequences that the Law Enforcement presence on Campus has been increased in preparation for WE3 implementation.
I negotiated WFH/location flexibility in my formal offer, with the some added conditions regarding availability.
For me, “hot-desking” is when the wind blows over the umbrella whilst working on the laptop on the Algarve.
For all of the anachronistic cretins who pressed for RTO…you’ve had your wish granted in abundance. Look at the bright side: at least you don’t have talk to your wives while you’re there.
Management's intention is to use nice words to create enough confusion so that only 10% of you resign per year... but still make it a terrible place to be at so that 10% of you do resign. That's about as fast as you can be replaced by a low cost center.
It's a fine balancing act.
Not the OP. I hate Hotdesking, and think the campus needs to find some way to stand-up to this decision and say ‘no.’ If you don’t have the spine to strand-up against something so obviously insulting, what is worth going to fight for?
This is in DIRECT conflict with any management statement about valuing people or trying to improve culture. I would like to see management have to explain this over and over again in every single forum until someone gets in through their head that it is a d-mb idea.
@OP - are you posting all of your own replies? Lol
Just say you hate the concept of hot dealing and want to provide some light reading to get others on board for a bit of campus mutiny
The constant uncertainty creates a feeling of nervousness and anxiety. We never know if there will be a place for us, or if we’ll get the place we want. It adds a dose of stress: ‘I mustn’t forget my things. Will I be next to noisy colleagues?’
I have gathered testimonies from people who complain about the unpleasant odours coming from those next to them, people they have to avoid being sat beside. People develop a kind of fixation about finding a place where they are able to work without being disturbed. It makes them feel under pressure to get to work earlier so that they can get a place that’s not too unpleasant or even to get a desk at all, because there are not enough desks for everyone. And that places them in a position where they are having to compete with each other. “I want that desk so I’m going to make sure you don’t take it from me.” That is not the way to foster solidarity and acceptable social interaction.
https://www.equaltimes.org/hot-desking-and-clean-desk?lang=en#.Y2saZqNMGVA
Why hot-desking and open-plan offices are bad for you
Flexible workspaces that encourage collaboration and creativity are all the rage. But they ignore basic human psychology – and they could be counterproductive
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132120-800-winning-at-work-why-hot-desking-and-open-plan-offices-are-bad-for-you/
Hot-desking is actively harming workplace productivity, say employees
https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1742431/hot-desking-actively-harming-workplace-productivity-say-employees
Fu----g executives won’t be hot desking. What more needs to be said? As-----s.
Hot desking was meant to save us all time and money. It hasn’t
Those minutes trying to find a desk add up to an average of two weeks a year of wasted time per employee
Hot desking might look good on paper, but any savings made are likely to be more than outweighed by the negatives
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hot-desking-meaning-benefits
The hidden he-l of hot-desking is much worse than you think
https://www.ft.com/content/bff71b8c-ae34-11e9-8030-530adfa879c2
Let’s face it, hot desking is the absolute worst
Hot desking means that every morning when you arrive at work you get to trudge around the office looking for somewhere to sit.
It means that you can’t ever keep your things in one place or have the comfort of something incredible like A DRAWER. Instead, the last 10 minutes of your day is taken up by carting your possessions into a locker, so that you can start the whole ridiculous rigmarole again the next day.
Want to sit near the people you work with? Not a chance. Want to leave something you’re working on where it is overnight? Nope. Fancy having some kind of potted plant or photograph on your desk? You’re having a bloody laugh.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/01/08/lets-face-hot-desking-absolute-worst-7212481/
How Hot-Desking Will Ki-l Your Company
If you hate your company, its employees and the shareholders then go ahead and introduce the latest management fad: Hot-desking.
It’s a better way to destroy the firm than inviting Russian hackers to rob you blind. The bigger the company, the faster the damage will occur with hot-desking.
It sends the message that employees don’t matter
Employers frequently say their employees are their biggest asset. But when the company can’t even be bothered to let you have a permanent desk, then the opposite message is sent. Put another way; hot desks mean you don’t matter to the company.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2019/06/20/how-hot-desking-will-ki-l-your-company/?sh=252c1ce32e94
Hot desking is as appealing as a steaming hot sh-t marinating in your car for two weeks
A deep dive on why hot-desking truly is the worst
Who thought this would be a good idea? Here are three ways that hot-desking is hurting your bottom line.
https://www.hrmonline.com.au/topics/organisational-design-development-and-change/a-deep-dive-hot-desking-the-worst/
The verdict on hot-desking: it actually sucks
If you work in an open-plan, hot-desking environment, you have probably at some point found yourself trudging through the office, clutching your belongings, in search of a free desk. This feeling of homelessness is an increasing issue in society more broadly – and in the workplace, employees' well-being is traded in for the company's bottom line.
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/why-hotdesking-makes-worked-feel-isolated-and-unwanted-20170214-gucdvo.html
“ hot-desking has been found to result in higher levels of distrust, fewer co-worker friendships and decreased perceptions of supervisory support. “
Sounds like just what we need right now!
The research on hot-desking and activity-based work isn’t so positive.
A recently published study of 1,000 Australian employees found that shared-desk environments had a number of problems. These included increased distrust, distractions, uncooperative behaviour and negative relationships. On top of this, there was a decreased perception of support from supervisors.
Another study showed that shared-desk environments can lead to employee marginalisation, indifference and inattention to co-workers, loss of identity and decreased organisational commitment.
These studies and more should sound a cautionary note against the uptake of shared-desk arrangements.
https://theconversation.com/the-research-on-hot-desking-and-activity-based-work-isnt-so-positive-75612