[azuriten]

> Imagine: casual and coffee shop-style seating, private space for heads-down focusing, larger bookable resources and collaboration spaces for teams to strategically meet IRL, and no more fixed desks—we’ll have neighborhoods for teams to gather and bookable desks for employees working in the office.

As much as I'm supportive of having flexible working and with that flexible office space, I really don't like the idea of non-fixed desks/hotdesking. Ergonomics and having a correct desk setup up for your needs is incredibly important and something we don't value as much as we should.

I'm 50/50 on whether I'd like to go to back to the office in the future (not having to take the tube in London is massive plus) but if I do I'd want my own desk setup, monitors set up at my required height and a comfortable chair. Hopefully that's not much too much to ask?

[jedberg]

The way I've seen this work out in reality is people who care about ergonomics and their setup end up going in every day and hoteling at the same desk every day, which basically just becomes their desk.

Everyone else just uses what's available. It's kinda like when you were in college. Even though there were no assigned seats, most everyone sat in the same seat each class, after the first few.

[jdhn]

>I really don't like the idea of non-fixed desks/hotdesking. Ergonomics and having a correct desk setup up for your needs is incredibly important and something we don't value as much as we should.

Someone who gets me! Hotdesks sounds like a good idea in theory, but in practice definitely are not. What happens if you show up late and somebody has your seat, do you boot them out? I'd just rather have a fixed desk, thank you very much.

[the8bit]

It is really for people coming in 1-2 days a week. Very impractical to have 5x desk space for 5 people who all come in one day a week.