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by vechagup 1214 days ago
I'm not in the PA that will be sharing desks but sit in one of the affected offices. I can see about 100 desks from where I am right now. All of them are assigned to someone, but only 6 presently have someone sitting there. Occupancy of our corner peaks at maybe 30%?

Something was bound to happen given all the unused real estate. But it's shitty that those of us who actually use our desks, because we rather like work-home separation, now might end up with a desk time share. Maybe all those people who didn't actually want to come to the office should have just filed for permanent remote?

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> Occupancy of our corner peaks at maybe 30%? > Maybe all those people who didn't actually want to come to the office should have just filed for permanent remote?

Not sure what the rules are at BigCo, but it looks like it would be way simpler to ask office-first people to apply to permanent positions.

They didn't want a lot of people to work remote permanently. They explicitly discouraged it with a quota.