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Hot-desking needs to go, unless it’s designed to work for the worker
Companies like the cost savings and how it encourages teamwork. This has to be balanced with the human need for one’s own workspace.
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Individuals may feel compelled to either arrive earlier or work later to secure a set-up more conducive to their working style.
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Kang Yang Trevor Yu
More companies are encouraging employees to leave their working-from-home arrangements and return to the office.
In line with this, they have begun a shift towards redesigning the office workspace by removing dedicated seating, so workers are hot-desking instead. This is an arrangement where employees have no assigned workspace. Instead, workstations are occupied daily on a first come, first served basis.
