Talk:Hot desking

Hotelling

I am planning to use this page as a disambiguation. It would point to both Hot desking and Harold Hotelling. User:Bruguiea 18:06, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Harold Hotelling was a famous mathematician/economist, and there should be an article about him under the search term "Hotelling" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dodo 2k (talk • contribs) 17:10, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

These are not the same thing. Hot-desking is reservationsless unassigned seating. Hotelling (or hoteling) is reservation based unassigned seating. There are three major types of seating assignment:

• Shift/Workshop
• Assigned
• Unassigned

Hotelling and Hot-Desking are methods of unassigned seating. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zuludogm (talk • contribs) 11:14, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Efficiency vs productivity

While it's obvious hot desking saves floorspace, there's no mention on the productivity impact of acquiring a workspace every day. Has any research or writing been done on the subject; does it counter-intuitively raise productivity? Josh Parris 00:03, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Article bias

This article looks like it is written by a company that sells hot desking systems/services. Nowhere does it mention that it is a common subject of ridicule. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.220.214.6 (talk) 14:48, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

I agree about the sales thing, but that doesn't mean that function isn't real and not a "common subject of ridicule". Just as a note : some library services use a sort hotelling and sometimes hot desking as I understand the definitions for public services. Think about the reference desk : the desk (and computer and phone) is available to the person scheduled on it - but they may still do other work there; or a library classroom with presentation equipment and a computer (required because you are doing a lecture capture-specialized software) is booked to teach literacy skills (part of the job). Or in some cases, they hot desk because there is work in a library that doesn't require being at a desk full time: all desks are generally configured the same, maybe some with specialized software, and whomever is working on certain types of tasks, works at that computer in that physical space rotating in and out of dealing with the public. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.113.214.123 (talk) 23:35, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Addressing long-standing issues

I have been working on this article to address a flag for citations that was placed back in 2013, and generally to improve the article's coverage of the topic. I work in the industry (for AgilQuest). My intent is to improve the article according to Wikipedia's neutrality standards, not to advance my company's interests in particular. -Dlucy67 (talk) 17:16, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

This article contradicts itself

From the lede:

Research has demonstrated that while there may be cost savings in office space hot desking has significant negative impacts on both productivity and staff morale.

From the "Usage" section:

However, it is seen that hot desking can increase productivity and communication in a business.

So, which is it? 198.176.82.33 (talk) 09:18, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

These are opinions, so subjective. The sentences should be formulated differently using may/might, etc.

References

Format

The article uses three different forms of the word: hot-desking, hot desking and hotdesking. It should be standardised in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.14.187.10 (talk) 13:06, 1 May 2022 (UTC)