Hot Desking
The scourge of modern office life is invading the civil service:
A Permanent Secretary has claimed a Whitehall first by becomnig the most senior official in Government to ‘hot-desk’.
Ian Watmore, who works in the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, is the only official of his rank not to have his own desk.
In the private sector, hot-desking has become prevalent as companies strive to maximise their use of resources and cut costs by providing limited desks for their workforce.
Mr Watmore and his senior team sit in a different part of the Kingsgate House building every week with staff having to locate them through the departmental intranet. (The Telegraph)
Hot desking is evil. Nothing is worse than it. Why someone of a Permanent Secretary’s level is doing it, I don’t know.
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Ah! I didn’t know that they were in Kingsgate House now. It was one of “ours” when I was in the (then) DTI…
I can see there are situations where hot-desking can work, but I have never liked the idea. Even when the Government Offices were created (from which some of us become no longer required, and I was made redundant once we were established in our new home) we didn’t hot desk our staff. We had planned well and everyone could be accommodated without making that economy.