Since there hasn't been any formal SURVEY (?) feedback opportunity provided to the employees impacted directly by it. Let's all post it here!!! Free form! Get busy folks and share you feelings. I hate it! But is that the goal?
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There you go! Global thinking BS!
Man y’all complaint about a lot of sh**. You have a roof over your head, AC/heater, a car, food, clothes, and electricity and y’all are compiling about hot desking?? Some of y’all could benefit from expat assignments or even travel to countries less fortunate than you in the USA. Get real folks!
Call it what it is:
Mental anguish that is possibly going to lead to workplace violence.
Notice increased law enforcement presence on campus?
Notice in announcements that Security Department named a full time Workplace Violence Investigator?
Hope I never have to say I Told You So, but I just told you so.
Just so everyone is clear:
Executives have the option to work from anywhere location they choose.
I guess all of you “real man” types with the throbbing hard-on for the office can contemplate that while you’re playing musical chairs with your colleagues.
You wanted the office, you got it.
EM Executive forcing hot desking even though surplus of office space seems like a potential root cause of either workplace violence or worker su----e at work.
Not a nice thing to say, but there is potential.
Our Executives want to replace the term “Going Postal” with the term “Going Exxon”.
Why don’t they just consolidate down to the min number of buildings were everyone still has a desk?
In our situation, hot desking is id--tic.
EM Executives sincerely cannot care less about the WE3 mental anguish imposed on us.
By end of November they will vote each other many more millions of dollars in bonuses and laugh about the torture they implemented in their efforts to justify giving themselves million$.
EM Executives sincerely cannot care less about the WE3 mental anguish imposed on us.
By end of November they will vote each other many more millions of dollars in bonuses and laugh about the torture they implemented in their efforts to justify giving themselves million$.
Hot desking is as desirable as diarrhea in a hot air balloon.
Hot-desking will be as successful as the "no-walls" elementary classroom experiments back in the 1980's. A massive failure.
@nxm Doesn’t matter how you identify. You’re defending boomer/early GenX-based work structures.
Google “culture jamming”. It describes your position in this discussion pretty well. It also doesn’t work on anyone who is web-literate.
Have fun hot-desking at the campus.
Olive Garden you have issues and likely a lazy .....
Absolutely pathetic. Forget this place!
Just think of all those times you have seen people leave a bathroom stall and head straight for the door. Wash their hands……nope. Back to their desk to spread the wealth.
Your discontent is the objective.
EM is gaslighting us slowly…take one thing away then the next. Hot desking is just another in the long line of actions by DW and his handlers. They want an additional 20% gone hence only 80% of ppl having assigned seats.
Someone please take the time to follow the janitorial staff to see if they actually wipe down everything at each desk and then watch to see if that same towel is used to wipe the coffee machines and or the toilets.
Also - I’d they’re going to be visiting every desk, every day - m can we have trashcans back?!
@lsg. Cute. But I am a millennial. Didn’t want RTO. But if I am here, I want space that is mine.
@hsi Early GenX. Same difference.
Anyway, it’s mostly older men who wanted RTO. These guys can’t stand being home with their wives and 30-something adult children who still live with them. Ergo, they drag themselves to the office.
Think of hot-desking as your karma for forcing everyone back to the office with you. Apply a little introspection. Maybe consider going into the restaurant business; I understand they’re looking for salad-tossers at the local Olive Garden.
Already Hotdesking. It is not fun. People need certain desks to work effectively with their team. As a result, it is the employees that need to be territorial in order to sit next to business-critical roles or people they need to mentor. And I don’t like the company putting me in a position where either
- I need to kick someone out of a seat, or
- take a seat that I know a coworker prefers day-to-day.
It doesn’t let me be my best person.
Finally, what do I get out of sitting next to a non-team member? I either ignore them or waste company time making small talk. I DO NOT have some thought provoking conversation that helps the bottom line. Their job has little to do with my job, after all.
This is penny-pinching opex savings at the expense of efficiency. A majority of employees think it ranges from annoying to disruptive to offensive.
Not a Boomer. But I like order and certainly at the start of my day. Not having a seat makes me start my day a little anxious and stressed. I cannot imagine that mind set, first thing in the morning, lets me produce productive work. All those threads about Quiet Quitting seemed stupid, but now I feel ready to embrace it.
R u kidding. Three things: sitting in someone else’s f_rt infused chair; having my dress and thighs rub up against someone’s boo_er nose pickings placed under the hot desk; and resting my arms and hands on the surface of the hot desk that someone just ate their microwaved left over fish dinner at.
It is just a continuation of the DW social experiment to see who can keep holding on after making things worse one initiative at a time. Think about the last employee policy change that was a positive for us here. With the exception of opening up the RSUs to more possible people, and even then it may have just been a play to put the hook in more people who assess well to keep them and run off the lower ranked folks.
All of the boomer men wanted RTO.
Wish granted.
Apparently many of you were expecting a private office with a mahogany desk, smart refrigerator, mini bar, and an army of junior employees sitting in cubicle farms to be at your beck and call. Otherwise known as “the good old days”.
You wanted the office, you got it. Eat it.
Hot Desking is such a horrible mentally torturing idea that it is likely the reason EM just assigned a full time “Workplace Violence Investigator” in the Security Department.
Hot Desking is pure disrespect.
EM has an excess of desks and record profits. Abandoning one less building on campus to provide enough desks for each employee would be insignificant to EM’s bottom line and show at least minimal respect for the employees making that record profit possible.
HATE IT!
I love it, wait, I’m not doing it. I think it’s a great idea…. for you.