Timeline for How to let colleagues know that your desk is vacant?
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| Apr 23, 2020 at 8:40 | comment | added | guest | @Acccumulation: Legally, yes, they belong to the company. But a company who starts with this argument to their employees quickly destroys morale (especially if the company is not in an industry like IT (where people are typically "logical thinkers" and act rational over emotional)). | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 14:36 | comment | added | Jamie Harris | @J... Tell me about it. That's the issues we are facing - not good :/ Will likely result in encouraging video conferencing between parties who planned to travel or flood into the already in demand meeting rooms. The move can't come soon enough | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 11:26 | comment | added | J... | @JamieHarris That's even crazier. What happens when nobody is absent? Standing room and a smartphone? | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 9:47 | comment | added | Jamie Harris | @J... and it is not hot desking! Hot desking refers to desks not being owned by one person - a free for all so to speak. This is about using people's desks when they are out of office. It's not that deep mate. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 9:46 | comment | added | Jamie Harris | @J... Yes you are right there are many ways you can squeeze - one of which is this method of letting people know when a desk is vacant, and probably the most beneficial to our case. Space for more desks? - A definite no. Even if we rearranged to a point that there was more space- which there isn't - it would require considerable costs in rewiring as our machines are ran off ethernet for optimal performance - an investment not worthwhile as this solution needs to be temporary (before we move). No exec offices either - our agile format encourages working as one. | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 13:25 | comment | added | J... | @JamieHarris I'd still call that poor planning. In any case, there are many ways you can squeeze for a few months until you get a larger space. A few more desks can surely be fit into the space unless it's already overstuffed. Maybe you have some execs that have large offices - make them bunk up two to a room and make space for 4-5 more desks in one of their old offices - whatever. I suppose the other part of my point is that finding a way to make hot-desking work is not the only solution to this problem - hot-desking is a nightmare, it kills morale and productivity, and just doesn't work. | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 12:55 | comment | added | Jamie Harris | @J... New management came in and brought a bigger workforce with them. Was a very immediate thing and was not an accumulation of poor management issues. But thank you for the working from home idea, I like it! | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 12:47 | comment | added | J... | @JamieHarris A similar situation might be akin to a server running out of space and management scrambling to have people sift through their files to clear out bits here and there to save space until the drives can be expanded. If you weren't planning an upgrade when you hit 70% capacity, that's a failure. Same with an office. If you're getting to 70-80% capacity and are still growing, the new office could and should have been in the pipeline then - not when you're at 107% capacity and now in a crisis. In both cases you have to eat some inefficiency until you fix the underlying problem. | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 12:43 | comment | added | J... | @JamieHarris It's not childish to expect an employer to provide a desk for a desk job. If your office is crowded, let people work from home more until you have sufficient space for them to come to work. At least that way they at least have their own desk to work at and don't have to spend half their day re-orienting in a new space. The point is that this pain is entirely due to slow reaction time and poor planning by those running this business - it's unfair to blame employees for a situation that was entirely created by mismanagement. | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 12:06 | comment | added | Jamie Harris | @j... How am I going to magic up the office space to accommodate for these desks? We have a new office in the pipeline but for the time being we need to make the most of what we have. We can't afford for people to adopt a childlike "This is mine!" attitude with desks. | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 11:03 | comment | added | J... | @VLAZ That doesn't change the fact that managing growth remains a primary responsibility of the leadership. Companies don't simply pop into existence in an office two sizes too small - they become that way when growth management is neglected for too long. If the company can't afford to grow and can't afford not to grow then the ship is going to sink and the only other thing this can mean is to prepare to find a new job. | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 7:55 | comment | added | VLAZ | "Desks are not exotic commodities." however space might be an issue. | |
| Jan 22, 2020 at 18:03 | comment | added | J... | @Acccumulation Of course they belong to the company. That doesn't mean that providing workspace shouldn't be the company's responsibility. If there's no space for more desks but there are also not enough desks for employees then this really isn't a problem of employee behaviour - it's simply poor planning. It sounds like OP's company is too busy treating a symptom when they should be focusing on the underlying problem - namely that they've hired more people than they have infrastructure to support. This is failed leadership - they've grown HR but have not grown their facilities. | |
| Jan 22, 2020 at 17:23 | comment | added | Acccumulation | The desks belong to the company, not the person. And offices don't generally have a bunch of empty space in which to put desks. | |
| Jan 22, 2020 at 15:17 | history | answered | J... | CC BY-SA 4.0 |