With an excess of office space and record breaking profits, there is zero justification for Hotdesking.
I have not met anyone that believes Hotdesking will increase collaboration.
Universally people think Hotdesking will just increase misery, destroy loyalty, and likely increase attrition.
Why would EM Execs do something so stupid? What is their objective?
If "we are in this together," will it lead to more unwanted pregnancies due to hotdesking or just more uncurable STDs?
The neighborhood videos are stupid. There is one where a guy flops out a big raw fish on his desk for lunch while everyone is "colaborating" at a big table in the open. Who the f--- does this? I'm bringing a griddle and making up waffles!!
@3evb+1m1Veh5P Love it. May we all get the Tasmanian Bat Flu while warming our desks in compromising positions 😅
Exactly @3mje+1m1Veh5P
Even at full capacity there was not a need for hot decking. Management just cannot be honest behind the real reason for the neighborhood shift, instead try to make everyone believe it’s needed for “collaboration” , etc.
No one at the working level believes the spin although most are afraid to say anything counter.
Hotdesking when space is limited is logical.
Hotdesking when company owns a surplus of office space and made record profits is a slap in the face and the only logical motivation would be headcount reduction without cost of a layoff.
Short answer is that the primary logical motivation for Hotdesking during high profits is to promote attrition.
If you want a laugh, take a look at the neighborhood video virtual tour complete with “actors”.
One has to love the company propaganda. Next up are the yammer leg humpers with how great neighborhoods are including collaboration pictures
I'm predicting that the rapid spreading of deadly germs from Hotdesking will unleash a plague upon us much greater than the one that recently came from the Wuhan Virology Lab.
I have the Texas Hammer, Camp Lejune and other class action lawyers saved in my contacts list and ready to call when there is an outbreak.
Until then, I will be hotdesking that recently hired hottie!
The best thing about sheep:
The harder you push them towards the cliff, the harder they push back.
@1slf+1m1Veh5P They should take the hint and leave then. The place looks more like a retirement home than a business. It’s Exxon, not the f’n Villages in FL.
All they’re doing by clinging on is making work miserable for everyone, themselves included. I have yet to see what value they’re adding by staying.
EM needs to grow a pair and just do a straight-up layoff. This PIP/negative-incentive BS is inefficient and ineffective.
OP, they want to you to leave the company. That's it. Darren will do whatever is needed for you to resign. Hotdesking is just one more way to make your life miserable so you leave. This has been the plan all along. Darren wants the employees to quit.
Houston needs to get to less than 5000 employees so that we can lease out two of the four quads to 3rd party companies or mothball two quads to save on taxes and utilities.
Yes, hotdesking and the 2023 NSI/NI's will assist us in reducing headcount to less than 5000.
Remind the execs that "we are in this together" and offer them a hot desk.
Durwood needs the comfort of his chewed gum collection under his desk.
You, on the other hand, do not deserve that comfort.
You deserve a keyboard embedded with random DNA.
Durwood has never touched a keyboard.
He barely even exists.
Exces May not even know. We assume alot of times they know what’s going on. Just something to think about
Hotdesking is stupid enough.
Reading all the propaganda is worse. It really makes you question the ethics of this company. I cannot imagine any exec listens to the Neighborhood propaganda and thinks “Yes, absolutely!”
Instead, I suspect they think “ All right, this sounds just good enough that the employee-body just might think this is something other than an asinine cost cutting measure.”
The Lord and his minions simply don't give a sh!t what we think about hot desking. If it saves a few bucks and opens up the possibility to rent out space to make some money that is the only thing which is important.
E = Exxon
M = Mobil
H = Hatred
C = Challenge
Hotdesking is a test to see how much Execs can make employees hate coming to work every day.
I don't think they're trying to drive attrition with hotdesking per se, but rather they just don't care if they do. I think our execs increasingly view the majority of our workforce as replaceable, so if there's a chance to save some cost at the expense of discontent and some attrition of the rank and file, they're just fine with it.
It’s such a toxic environment! ☠️
E = Extreme
M = Mental
H = Health
C = Challenge
Our management keep saying that Hotdesking is meant to increase collaboration. Quite a stupid concept.
Collaboration at EM is limited by forced ranking system. Everyone is very careful not to help their workmates (competitors) very much for fear that their workmate/competitor will move up in ranking.
True collaboration can only be achieved when workmates are not in a forced ranking competition.
Now workmates will have to compete against each other for a desk each morning. Just “F” ing genius.
Likely the executive over GREF has a bonus based on a metric that this will help him hit. Just like when exploration was looking for reserves replacement in places that would never be economic like the Kara Sea.
Implementing Hotdesking while building huge palatial offices for execs on campus is insulting.
Execs should lead by example and be the first to hotdesk.
The Execs behind the hotdesk idea cannot even cope with random parking in the garage and are having private parking section created for them.