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by wkat4242 991 days ago
One of the issues in my company is that since the pandemic we have only hotdesks. So bouncing ideas off team members is hard as they're usually somewhere else in the building. Before we had fixed desks and departments so you would know where to find someone.

We have this terrible booking app called Planon that doesn't offer any way to locate someone. And it's horrible to use (every time you use it you have to sign in with a 3 step MFA process). So most people just ignore it and it causes a lot of conflicts between people that booked a desk and people that just grabbed one. It's a total mess. At the same time I'm sitting beside all sorts of noisy annoying sales goons that are on the phone all day so I get nothing done.

All it's accomplishing now is that I thoroughly hate the company and its 'leadership'.

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I much prefer the office and think the only issue with RTO is when promises are not kept, but: screw hot desking. I've only had to do it for a few weeks but I hated it. I prefer much cubicle with high walls and good natural lighting to WFH, but prefer anything to hot desking. I'd rather work out of a hotel room.