Hot Desking 101: a quick guide

Discover the benefits of hot desking to help you decide if it’s right for you in this era of hybrid work.

We have become accustomed to the flexibility of remote work, but there still has benefits to bringing your staff into the office — better collaboration, unplanned discussions, and a location for concentrated work when they need it. 

However, if each person has their own desk that they only use a few days a week, you will have a lot of wasted space. Hot desking is now the ideal answer for businesses transitioning to hybrid work.

Recently, executives at Europe’s largest bank also told to try ‘Hot Desking’, noting it comes as the bank pursues plans to shrink its office space by 40% in a post-pandemic shake-up.

On paper, hot desking appears simple, but in fact, it is more difficult to accomplish. You will quickly have a hectic office and angry staff if you do not have a practical strategy to handle desk sharing.

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Tips for Hotdesking Strategy Set-up in Smart Office from Professional

Workplace professional list outs the factors that affect your hotdesking strategy set-up.

  • Workplace professional list outs the factors that affect your hotdesking strategy set-up
  • Hotdesking schedules and management are the key points to make your smart office successful.

Hotdesking is a hot topic that frequently comes up in conversations with our clients as companies continue to determine their best approach for supporting hybrid work to save operational costs.

What does hot-desking mean?

Hotdesking simply means that to create workspaces that employees who come into the office for individual work can use as needed while they are present. Those spaces aren’t always reserved for specific people’s exclusive use, but they can be reserved for people to use on a regular basis.

Metrigy, an innovative research firm focusing on the rapidly changing areas of Unified Communications & Collaboration (UCC)/digital workplace, recently conducted a survey of 935 businesses in Europe, North America, Australia, and parts of Southeast Asia to determine how they approached hotdesking within their organizations.

They discovered a wide range of implementations in the following areas among the approximately one-quarter of organizations that have already implemented hotdesking.

Following are some tips that can help you to successfully set up your hotdesking strategy in the office.

(Learn more about hot desking: Hot Desking 101: a quick guide)

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