Hot Desking - Is it all its cracked up to be?!
May 23, 2008
I read an article in the People Management magazine about “Hot Desking” recently and couldn’t make my mind up if i thought it was a good idea or a really bad idea?!
Hot-desking is basically where staff have no workstation of their own and is also a form of flexible working.
Hewlett Packard are one company who have decided to implement hot desking into their offices, and with 4,000 staff and only 1,600 desks you can imagine people would be fighting for a work station, but this is not the case.
Only 1000 employees got to keep their own desk, but most departments, including HR had to switch.
A lot of the staff at Hewlett Packard really like the idea, saying that the office now has more of a “buzz” and that they can grab their favorite position and work next to the people they know. Other people complained that they were loosing space for files and folders.
Working in HR and having lots of confidential documents, i dont think it would be a good idea, but for departments such as sales it would be fine.
Although i think its a good idea for companies who have people in and out of the office all day i dont think this would work for the majority. I wouldn’t personally like to have to clear my desk each day and not know where i am sitting from one day to the next. My desk is my territory !!
What is your opinion on hot-desking?
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