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On the day we join him, his commute is not by car or bus, his working environment is not a hot-desking city centre office and what he's searching for does not, for the most part, come via email or spreadsheet.

In 2019 Bodin Danielsson and Töres Theorell of Stockholm University studied hot-desking offices that skimped on breakout rooms or otherwise didn't have enough space for everyone to find a work space to their liking, and employees were unhappier with this office type.

The big boss here rented a smaller space and I’ve been livid about it and trying to make a very strong case that we shouldn’t just do hot-desking and barely enough space for folks with tiny cubes and fewer offices.

To make hot-desking easier, Google is testing a workstation that remembers users’ settings, adjusting the local temperature and height and tilt of the monitor based on a worker’s card swipe.

"Hot-desking is commonplace and cleansing is hit and miss. It's a toxic combination."