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the chance to connect like they would in a office environment, especially when it is
traditional office with permanent desks and used to support a flexible working strategy,
private offices on the floor plan. collaborative workspace, or hybrid workplace
model.
Here’s how to resolve the most common hot
desking issues that arise in the workplace. Here are the working environments that
typically benefit most:
Give employees hot desking tools that make
sharing desks easier. Leveraging workplace Office neighborhoods. Office neighborhoods
software that makes hot desking quicker and are groups of desks on a company floor
more efficient for employees. A workplace plan that are dedicated to specific functions
mobile app and real-time office maps can go or departments. Hot desks can be used
a long way to removing friction from the hot- within each office neighborhood to support
desking experience. individual employee seating needs. Check
out some office neighborhood examples if
Manage hot desks with desk booking you’re new to this work setup.
software. Desk booking software that
provides additional insight into how, when, Activity-based workspaces. An activity-
and by whom desks and spaces are being based workspace (ABW) is a dedicated
used can help your workplace team track group of seats or zone that is set up to
the success of your hot desking strategy support any type of collaboration in the
in real time and improve the desk booking workplace. Typically focused on a specific
experience for everyone. activity or type of work—quiet work, group
work, desks to support team-specific tasks,
Make sure teams stick together. Post and more—most activity-based workspace
pandemic, it’s common for teams to split designs can benefit from the flexibility that
their time between remote work and in- hot desks provide.
office collaboration. To promote better
team cohesion and prevent a feeling of Agile workspaces. An agile workplace gives
isolation from creeping into the workplace near-unlimited autonomy to employees. For
experience, hold regular video conference example, workers are given a task, but they
meetings so that teams can interact with one get to choose when, where, and even how
another—even if they’re not physically in the to complete it. Agile working often relies
same place. For socialization and teamwork, directly on hot desks to deliver an extreme
regular team outings or get-togethers can level of seating flexibility to employees.
also be effective in bringing new employees,
long-time office workers, and remote work How to measure the success of hot
team members together. desking
Integrating hot desking isn’t a one-and-
Is hot desking effective? done experience. Tracking desk usage and
Hot desking can be an effective workplace ensuring that available hot desks reflect the
strategy when it is deployed in the right needs of your team takes time.
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