Work...

[dagibbs]

Last week I was at QNX headquarters to teach for a week (well, 4 days, Monday was travel home from Confusion). This teaching stint went fairly well, with 4 customers and 4 internal (QSS) students in attendance. It was nice to teach again, and I didn't have to travel for it.

This week, I'm back at MMIST -- I arrived back to find (as I had been warned) my previous desk location taken over by a new hire, but the "new" desk location not prepared. Oh joy. And, the whole team was in a meeting when I arrived at work, too. I did track down & join the meeting, and with the push of me being back, I now have a desk. Not a cube, a desk. To my left is the sink, I have nowhere to hang a coat, I've got ethernet wire running over the top of partition walls, and my back is to some corrridor area with the printer, too, but I've got a desk. Yay.

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[ragnhildr.livejournal.com]

From World Wide Words (http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-hot1.htm):

HOT DESKING

This term dates from the early nineties. It’s one of a set of words invented to describe aspects of new working practices. In hot desking, also sometimes called location independent working, workers do not have their own desks, but are allocated work space according to their needs, keeping their personal belongings in lockers or filing cabinets when not in the office. The system is heavily dependent on computers to route telephone calls, allocate resources and maintain individual working files.

The name may derive from hot bunking, the name given to the sharing of sleeping space by sailors on watch in wartime, when as one went on watch another took his place. The system is best suited to firms in which staff spend a lot of time out of the office, for example seeing clients, so that space doesn’t have to be kept permanently allocated for them and costs are reduced. Other names for the system are the virtual office and hotelling. The latter can refer to a version in which the building is treated as though it were a hotel without beds, in which all space and facilities for staff are provided against bookings as though to guests; one consultancy firm in the US is reported to have engaged a hotel concierge to ensure that services run smoothly.

A person who works according to this system is a hot desker; the verb to hot desk is also common.

Do you get concierge service? *g*

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

No concierge service, unfortunately. I have to fetch my own coffee.

[markbhall.livejournal.com]

As long as there isn't a flush valve behind your seat, it's all good.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

I guess I'm ok.