Anyone know when hot desking starts?
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Compete for Seats to Win
Are we going to have real desks or is it going to be a free for all? I heard that they plan to only supply 80% of name plate capacity. If there are 100 people in the org chart there will be 80 seats. Anyone confirm?
Testimonial videos bout the Neighborhood TM look like Vietnam POW films. Lordy
Super jazzed for this. Can't wait for adjaciencies/cute Accenture made up words
Rona, flu and rabies will be rampant on those desks!!! Then boogers and grease and other fun lol
@gkgq+1kaN7iSO
Totally correct!
They actually want to implement a system of bunk desks, two or three on top of each other! The money thus saved will go straight into a fund for top management multi-million dollar pay rises.
It hasn’t been yet implemented because of disagreements on where to put the HiPos. They would prefer the bottom desk - like top dogs in prison cells. However, the higher management wants HiPos to symbolically take the top desks, to show everybody who’s on top of whom.
Hot desking doesn't go far enough. They should start a wine rack development pattern for desks to utilize the unused 50% of each floor above your head. This means we can abandon even more buildings.
Hot desking to grow the company larger than existing floor space allows is a valid business purpose that most would accept just to help the company.
Hot desking for the sake of adding an extra building to the ones being abandoned is like kicking every employee in the cr---h every morning as they search for an open desk.
All hot deskers will search for jobs. Attrition will reach the maximum that the job market can support.
@7ari+1kaN7iSO any extra info or is this all conjecture?
Just to repeat: crumbs and human hair. And now there are a couple containers of disinfectant wipe floating around, should you need to clean up after strangers.
The Presidents need to be leaders and not managers. If true there is pushback from the Presidents on hot decking that is good. Forums such as these at least get monitoring and attention, because the lower level Vice-Presidents have become neutered or spayed syncophants that refuse to voice any leadership opinions on the state of the employees; basically because they are more concerned over loss of 3-5 times annual rsu, EBU, and cash bonus multiple calcaluted from $600-800k annual compensation. Why rock the boat and risk ~2M year or more bonus as vp — probably will not happen.
The plans are on hold. Not all presidents on board. Concern is exacerbating already high attrition.
You will start hot desking when we tell you to and you won't complain or ask any questions, just do what you're told. If you don't like it, go complain about working for someone else.
Yes it really really sucks. Hit desking sucks. And it doesn’t work.
It’s not dehumanizing though - ge-z, go work for retail at Walmart or Starbucks or Lowe’s or Home Depot and see how that feels. Or go work in Asia, or Africa or Russia and see how you feel.
Dehumanizing my a-s
@4jnm It isn’t dehumanizing.
Obnoxious, yes. Inconsiderate, absolutely. Dehumanizing? Only if your sense of entitlement stretches to the center of the Milky Way and deforms time and space around it, which seems to be the case for many of you.
Your fundamental human rights are not being violated by the new office plan. The silly, overheated rhetoric isn’t helping your cause.
emhc hot desking <--- need an app yo see availability
emhc parking <--- need an app for that too
The idea of airline style overbooking for full time in-office technical jobs is thrilling. Creates a lot of clarity, cares for people, competes to win, and inspires baby (Austin powers voice that last baby)
Open floor plan ok. Cubicles ok.
Emptying owned office space to squeeze 100 employees into 80 daily randomized desks from which many can see empty buildings next door, that is dehumanizing.
@3hja “Dehumanization”
Lol…are you people f’n serious?
Tell us…what does that level of entitlement feel like? How does it feel to be so entitled that the very essence of your humanity is being compromised by common seating in an office space?
You people are a joke.
I think they know it will exacerbate attrition and don't care. Dehumanization to th3 max. This is being driven by out of touch bean counter/Adventure types
The most generous interpretation is that this is a smart move from the management in order to get even more people to quit on their own. If any of the people in charge pretend to see “value” in this hot-desking aberration, it means that the EM management has switched from incompetence and stupidity to straight sabotage.
Everyone needs to stop it with the CFO cr@p. This hot desking project was being worked and in the works long before she showed up. I’m sure you can find real things to worry about with regard to the CFO, but this is a red herring.
Ridiculous. Making money hand over foot and taking away offices? Will they throw cots in like Elon and have a giant sleepover?
@2nxq You wanted the office, you got the office. Eat it.
What did you think, that you would all have private offices with mahogany desks, mini bars, and personal refrigerators? Apparently so.
Nobody ever asked for hot desking.
Abandoning some office space is good,
Abandoning needed office space is too much of a good thing.
Our CFO is happy to empty too many buildings so that when employees are walking around each morning searching for an available desk, they can see the empty buildings through the window.
An employee value judgment communicated every desk searching morning.
FYI the tours are reminiscent of Time Share sales demos, but minus the free Disney/Universal tickets. Everyone is awkwardly looking around realizing how stupid the idea is until some brave soul publicly asks tough questions that everyone is thinking but too downtrodden to speak up.
@2sie Easy fix: they put out an updated policy for maintaining your workspace, let the complaints pile up, watch you for a while, then walk you out for violating the policy.
@2fof This is what all of you asked for.
The narrative went something like this: All of these wimpy kids are laying around at home on their laptops and getting nothing done, so we need to force everyone back to the office where the “real men” of our generation (as in, before computers existed) got “real work” done.
Request granted. You may stop whining now.
Remember the email from management, we peasants asked for this.
Wait until you see the pu-e inducing yammer post on how wonderful it is from the leg humpers (with pics of course)
Is there any way to interpret this as anything other than a Mount Rushmore sized middle finger to workers? It is dehumanizing, no?
Plan is to make my desk as disgusting as possible when we start hot desking. FYI,you might want bring a black light with you when finding your desk for the day.
I was out a day. I came back to my preferred desk to find it covered in crumbs and a single human hair. What a way to start a morning.
It will begin at the peak of flu season. Almost there, and every desk and chair will be "hot" with the flu virus.
We do not want buildings that are 40% full.
We want buildings 100% full.
We do not want 115% full with assumption that 15% will be away on any given day. Search for open desk every day.
This desk searching policy dreamed up by elites that have an office and even an assigned parking space.
It’s fun, I liked it at Wellness 3 when I first got here. Neighbor makes too much noise, bo-m, you move. New girl with giant winnebagos shows up, you move next to her. Win win mo--ns.
What do you whiny, limp-wristed WFH’s want? The company to keep buildings open that are 40% occupied (on a good day) open just in case you happen to feel the need to come in one time a week? Reap what you sow.
Wait, you folks have desks???????
I have yet to find a single person who thinks hot desking (cough neighborhoods TM) is a good idea. Have any yall gone on a tour?
I have yet to find a single person who thinks hot desking (cough neighborhoods TM) is a good idea. Have any yall gone on a tour?
The CFO idea to abandon so many buildings that employees cannot be assigned a full time desk demonstrates either single digit IQ or a desire to increase attrition.