CFAS Autumn 2021 Journal
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Industry News and Services<br />
Hot desking<br />
in the post-pandemic workplace<br />
From open workspaces to closed offices and<br />
everything in between, there are dozens of office<br />
designs in vogue in today’s workspaces. But as<br />
companies explore new workplace strategies as<br />
they weigh up how best to bring employees back<br />
to the office after Covid-19, many are exploring<br />
reconfiguring their workspaces to meet changing<br />
employee demands.<br />
As businesses adjust to a post-lockdown world,<br />
many are contending with what the implications<br />
of continuing remote policies will be on office<br />
occupancy rates, in addition to employee needs in<br />
the workplace. Recent surveys have shown that<br />
employees want to go back to the office for three<br />
main reasons: to collaborate with colleagues, to<br />
attend in-person meetings and to have a quiet<br />
place for individual work.<br />
for a person and workers are free to work at any<br />
open seat, desk, table or workstation, which offers<br />
the flexibility and autonomy to select a dedicated<br />
workspace based on the work they’re doing.<br />
Hot desking offers companies one way to<br />
reconfigure their workspaces with a focus on<br />
collaborative spaces while offering unassigned<br />
individual workstations. Businesses can also invest<br />
in designing a variety of unique workspaces that<br />
range from private rooms to open workstations,<br />
social spaces and meeting areas. So an employee<br />
who needs a place for focused, individual work<br />
can choose to work in a private room or at a desk.<br />
Conversely, an employee who needs to collaborate<br />
with colleagues can use a meeting room or<br />
communal area.<br />
This has led to some companies taking a fresh<br />
look at hot desking, which is a popular workplace<br />
practice among co-working providers and serviced<br />
offices, for their own dedicated and private offices.<br />
Hot desking explained<br />
Hot desking is a workplace strategy that started<br />
in the 1990s that does away with assigned seating<br />
for employees and instead offers them the ability<br />
to choose where, and how, they work within a<br />
given office environment. There’s no ‘fixed seat’<br />
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