‘It’s like being a homeless person but with a laptop and a salary and a…home.’ Impeccable delivery.

Hot desking and open plan offices are an extroverts wet dream. Sheer hell for people who need to focus and get work done.

@bmacpher

5 ай бұрын

Normal offices are for extroverts. Remote working and anonymous hotdesking are vastly better than being stuck in the one spot where every boring or lazy wanker - sorry, valued colleague or boss - can find you.

@andgate2000

27 күн бұрын

Nightmare for introverts.

She missed the bit were the desk would be broken or messy as the last person broke the network port and then cannot work. Has to call IT and waste a bit more time :)

Kitty should be hosting this show!!

My desk is so hot ... I've hot desked full time working from home 🎉😂

And now, in 2023, "Activity Based Working" is the new thing... and it's just Hot Desking with a new name. My business unit does it, so I go into the office 5 days a week so I can keep my desk :D

AND don't forget the ability of germs and viruses to spread more easily if you are bouncing around to different desks every day.

@mrsmilee

4 жыл бұрын

#COVID19

@Nicholas.Tsagkos

Жыл бұрын

that's why we have cleaners

@Fuzcapp

Жыл бұрын

@@mrsmilee Yeah. At my daughter's office, hotdesking died the death during covid ... And then the management bastards brought it back again. The workers hate it.

@ash_17406

5 ай бұрын

Well only for the nasty people who don't wipe down the desk, mouse, and phone every morning (you know with the time their paying you for anyway). I bet you leave dishes in the office sink and don't empty the dishwasher either, amirite Joe?

'Kitty is a secret Ninja' theory confirmed.

@TheRICKY85

6 жыл бұрын

Nah, Kitty likes to be seen and heard, that is the complete opposite.

Secret: it’s a way of culling staff without having to go through messy restructures or paying redundancies.

@missdoglover1644

5 жыл бұрын

It could also be construed as constructive dismissal. Where an employer makes your life so difficult you have no option but to resign. Employers who try these tactics are on very shaky ground, next step employment tribunal.

@Fuzcapp

Жыл бұрын

@@missdoglover1644 It's called "managing you out" - it's an actual module / subject in management school.

@vink6163

Жыл бұрын

Not sure it always works in favour of the employer though - the best employees know they can get a better job elsewhere, so they all leave and you're only left with those who put up with it because they know their skills are lacking and they will struggle to find another job. Same thing is happening now with companies refusing to offer remote work - the best employees leave, so you end up dragging only your underperforming employees back into the office.

Hated hot desking. It worked - left the company.

who's watching this now-covid19/lockdown/work-from-home season-because companies are contemplating on hot desking now more than ever before ahhaha

@Fuzcapp

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. At my daughter's office, hotdesking died the death during covid ... And then the management bastards brought it back again. The workers hate it.

I guess Charlie has never worked in a call centre. In a hot desking/seating situation you can get up to use the bathroom and when you return someone else is in your seat.

@bornin54

6 жыл бұрын

Acutally call center staff are now hot desking in their own homes so they have to us their own equipment for everything. So the campanies make even more profit and the workers get shafted. Just like Uber drivers and delivery people.

Yay comments! Are they finally not disabling them.

@kite9067

6 жыл бұрын

its lit. I been hoping this would happen eventually

That's one way to get your boss to fix up their mistakes 😂

LOVE it.

FWOW this is great

Hot desking grrr

Sad but true

I think it is just like any other business concept. It will work well in some business structures but will be an absolute failure in other companies. There is no one-size-fit-all concept.

@greenwithagun

5 жыл бұрын

No, it's an absolute failure everywhere. Along with open-plan offices, of course.

@greenwithagun

5 жыл бұрын

www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/bernstein-open-offices.aspx

@Fuzcapp

Жыл бұрын

Maybe - but what will happen is given Australia's management quality, those places where it works well, will ditch it, and those places where it is a miserable failure, will cling to it like skiddies to cotton.

Why do they call it "hot desking" when it is only good for spreading colds?

So now working from home is no longer just another conspiracy theory ?

0:46 the size of that dude!

I love her

I remember there was talk about this in the late nineties in the APS. Also isn't this what you did at school anyway. Unless of course you bags your spot.

I must be the only person who likes hotdesking. For me, it provided a handy excuse to sit somewhere else and not be around people who would talk to me and I would talk to 👀

Haha, Virginia got it agaim

Great for Covid….lol

Why do they censor the F word?

OMG! I really appreciate that you are discussing the down sides of hot desking. But the thousands of Australians that suffer from these down sides of hot desking didn't need the Hey Hey It's Saturday mockery of their hard working careers!

Hot-desking works great if you don’t carry all your unnecessary shit along everywhere you go. Most hot desks these days already have everything you need at the desk itself such as monitors and accessories. Who dafaq carries their own monitor to office as they showed here!!