Hot Desking Trend - Adding Insult To Injury
Hello worldwide WA community and Happy Monday!
Today's brief post piles up on top of a growing heap of my prior recent posts which follow new and emerging socio-economic trends driven by the rusty, creaking, decaying and collapsing "cradle to grave" plan the conventional society has drawn up for us.
The subject of this post was inspired by a recent blog article in The New Scientist online edition and an independent survey by the UK firm Saville, both of which decried the "hot desking: trend detailed below.
Hot-desking – where employees use different desks as needed – has spread around the world as companies look to cut costs and foster more employee interaction. But a new Savills survey of 1,000 office workers suggests 60% of employees dislike the policy of sharing workstations, and many even say it makes them less productive. A separate study by consulting firm Brickendon found many workers feel that hot-desking leads to wasted time and added stress as they need to set up new stations daily.
As if the workforce doesn't have enough built in anguish and resentment towards their overall working conditions and compensation, the corporate nannies deployed "divide and conquer" by making their employees into gladiators who, most likely because every one of them is under pressure and anxious, will find it difficult to play musical chairs and to somehow magically find his/her colleagues in the corporation easy to get along and work with or to trust.
Social engineering 101 with further erosion of employee morale, pent-up anger and distrust towards all around, colleagues or management.
Back in the feudal days, exile to "exotic" deserted or remote places was also a trend.
But this time is going to be different right?
Not so according to the employees who responded to the polls and surveys, yet that didn't seem to put an end to that demeaning practice.
I can see some shades of legal issues in there, but that is for another day to ponder on.
As for us, we need to see this as yet another pain point that the employees in the corporate space are faced with and we can help, educate, empower and liberate them from the clowns and the circus music of the musical chairs.
Blessings!
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Getting the people prepared for the robots....robots won't care what desk they use. Dehumanising workplaces, removing any slight glimpse of happiness one gets from a photo on their desk. Get out of there while you are still human!!!
Great post
Daisy
Daisy,
Well said, I actually missed that angle but you are correct on dehumanizing after all robots do not have esteem, emotions or the spirit which all sovereign people do.
We will help liberate all who are willing to escape.
Blessings!
There's always another question behind a reason. Is this about productivity, efficiency, conditions, moral or just plain old money. Is there not just a formula that rules the world ? Not sure why but your post has made me think of that company that donated a pair of shoes for every pair it sold. I like that thought.
Dr Prof Emeritus Honoris Causa Twack,
Whatever the employers' motivation and expected outcome, if we purely look at the cause and effect set of dynamics, clearly it is a disaster with negative implications.
On somewhat a different note. in light of fairly little interest,I may stop either posting as regularly or change the topic to more social media FB like, at least to see what the response is.
In the end, I ought to post more on my websites and have a different level of engagement here.
Time will tell, but I can see how many responses I would get if I was to announce that....[run of the mill FB subject matter].
Blessings
WOW instead of MEOW
If I can write a blog on that and have some cute feline cover image I may wind up off the charts.
Can I perhaps write daily blog posts about changing trends in domesticated cats Prof dr Emeritus Twack?
Blessings!
PS: Off to the writing desk feather and ink in hand....Eat your heart out FB, you didn't see this one comin'
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That picture up there gave me flashbacks to my cubicle farm life. OMG. I hated those places so much.
I also experienced "hot desking" and I agree with the poll. I hated it. I left a pair of earrings at a desk once because my headset was giving me a migraine and I was trying to ease up some pressure. When I came in the next day, the earrings were gone from the desk.
But the female agent sitting next to me (who sat next to me the previous day, BTW) was wearing them.
I looked at her and said, "You know, I left my earrings here last night and they look just like those."
Her response? "No kidding?"
I decided the pleasure of snatching them out of her head was not enough to lose my job.
But yeah, that's hot desking.
Gwendolyn J
Gwen,
So sorry that you had that ordeal and it seems that now you've removed yourself from that environment.
Blessings!