Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Other than OPEX reduction, another reason to hot desk is to encourage our employees to move out to the refineries and chemical plants where they still have their own cubicle or walled office.

The grass is greener in the operating units.

It seems that Hotdesking will reduce productivity and increase attrition.

Hotdesking - brain fa-t of people that have private palatial offices and assigned parking spaces

No work from home + No work from office = No work

Helps low cost areas compete I guess.

@1bcp Or…..

Find a job that lets you WFH without giving you a hassle, or at least provides you with a decent workspace.

To read the comments here you’d think this was a problem with no solution. That’s only true if you’re pushing 60 and haven’t bothered to learn anything useful for the last 10 years. Everyone else has options. Use them.

Just drop some coffee on the desk that you like. Or pick your nose, put the boogers on the desk while everybody is watching. Do something nasty and put it on the desk. Nobody will touch that desk for weeks. Believe me. It is all yours to enjoy so pick a good one.

What a bunch of cr-p. Where then is the RTO F2F collaboration? Buttk!ssers saving seats for their bosses...hahahaha. I'm glad I'm not there, I hope I can retire from an expat position.

Yes, 6 months in:

People have ‘sort of’ claimed desks (The only positive in all this.)

When a desk or it setup breaks, it just gets left. No one has responsibility to get it fixed.

Someone(s) keep removing wires from the small flex offices…..so when you go in to use them, you either cannot power or cannot connect to the monitor.

Some folks seem to take immense pleasure hiding in the far corners, which is completely explainable if you arrive late and cannot find a seat (but I don’t think this is the case.)

I see young employees get up and relinquish their desks, when a manager is walking around looking for a spot. (So doesn’t help the issue.)

Couple to this that I no longer know what anyone does (given all the org changes) and there is no organized seating to tie positions to a desk, and it feels like a bunch of familiar faces chaotically dumped in a big office building….all slightly unaware of what they are supposed to be doing or what is going on around them (which is a good analogy right now for a lot of things.)

Already doing hot desking and we have all claimed our desks and not doing any of this sh-t. I hate the concept but I leave stuff at my desk because I DONT CARE.