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Hot-desking a hot-button issue but it's not going away - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 23 Aug 17 - No Cached
  • Hot-desking, as I'm sure you know, is the practice of not assigning desks to staff but requiring them to find a new workspace each day.
  • Hot-desking is often accompanied by "activity-based working", where staff are issued laptops or other technology and given the flexibility to work wherever and whenever.
  • Research published in academic journal Applied Economics earlier this year included a survey of 1000 Australian employees. It found as work environments become more shared, workers report increased demands and decreased supervisor support. Workplace friendships are not improved as a result.
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  • Problems included increased distrust, distractions, uncooperative behaviour and negative relationships.
  • The research suggests the practice of movement creates additional work and a sense of marginalisation for hot-deskers.
  • For me the most fascinating insight was the finding that a social structure emerges distinguishing employees who settle in one place and become quasi-owners of a desk, and others who have to move constantly. That's certainly true from my experience.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 23 Aug 17
     
    article by Caitlin Fitzsimmons in the Sydney Morning Herald, August 22, 2017,on hot-desking, having to find a new work space every day
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