Hot Desking: Kitty Flanagan

[@jeno264]

Omg Kitty Flannigan is the investigative journalist we all need 💖

[@teapug9624]

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

[@Clint_L]

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 :)

[@jack6539]

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

[@bmacpher]

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]

Nightmare for introverts.

[@fionamcwilliam8703]

I'm an extrovert and I hated hot desking! I need to work in a space where I know where everything is as I get unsettled by noise and different surroundings. You get used to whoever is near you and how they work so it disturbs you less if you're in the same desk every day. If you're at the same desk with the same folk around you you learn to shut out their noise and work. Not so if it's different people every day! And you don't waste 10 minutes plus every day setting yourself up before you can start working!

[@presntnow]

Kitty Flanagan, a Comedy Genius! 😂❤

[@user-xs5dp4gw8e]

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

[@TheNetstaar]

Kitty should be hosting this show!!

[@joetrotsky6700]

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

[@krankymann]

#COVID19

[@Nicholas.Tsagkos]

that's why we have cleaners

[@Fuzcapp]

@@krankymann 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]

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?

[@alexashton6501]

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

[@allyson1691]

Hated hot desking. It worked - left the company.

[@naythechocolatehead]

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

[@missdoglover1644]

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]

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

[@vink6163]

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.

[@loverlyme]

@@Fuzcapp Bloody oath!

[@NewMessage]

'Kitty is a secret Ninja' theory confirmed.

[@TheRICKY85]

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

[@mamooada7973]

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]

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.

[@justinm2697]

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]

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.

[@soxysoxy3277]

Yay comments! Are they finally not disabling them.

[@kite9067]

its lit. I been hoping this would happen eventually

[@caelansmith]

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

[@briancampbell179]

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

[@ash_17406]

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 👀

[@basselalhindi]

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]

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

[@greenwithagun]

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

[@Fuzcapp]

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.

[@mitchgibson32]

LOVE it.

[@benmcgeehan]

Sad but true

[@airmackeeee6792]

0:46 the size of that dude!

[@NathanLittel]

FWOW this is great

[@vivienhinton5472]

Hot desking grrr

[@lookingupwithwonder]

I love her

[@trevorzzealley2670]

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

[@silverbullet1960]

Why not Hot Desk from home?😂

[@markc65]

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.

[@AlexanderEdoh2013]

Why do they censor the F word?

[@tonywang1711]

Haha, Virginia got it agaim

[@debprentice1765]

Great for Covid….lol

[@deepakdhami349]

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!!

[@phillipdonkin4181]

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!