hot desking
Rotating workspace arrangement
Hot desking is a workplace arrangement where employees don't have assigned seats but use whatever desk is available when they arrive.
The practice emerged as companies sought to reduce real estate costs and accommodate flexible schedules: We switched to hot desking when half the team went remote.
The term evokes the military phrase "hot bunking," where sailors share beds in shifts.
Shared professional space rental
- open-planLacking interior walls
- workstationTechnical computing system
- officeProfessional work location
- cubiclePartitioned office workspace
ergonomics · seating · floor-plan · locker · reservation · check-in · amenities · monitor
Limber and quick-moving
- adaptableAble to adjust readily
- nomadicWithout fixed residence
- fluidSubstance that flows
- dynamicActive and changing
scalable · modular · reconfigurable · unassigned · rotating · itinerant · peripatetic · mobile
Shared by a community
- sharedHeld in common
- poolingMerging shared contributions
- allocationDistribution of shares
- multipurposeUseful for varied applications
interchangeable · common · collective · rotation · time-sharing · etiquette · courtesy · sanitization
Thing of mixed parentage
- telecommutingEmployment from afar
- remoteDistant or controller
- distributedDivided and given out
- virtualExisting in effect, not fact
digital · cloud · connectivity · wireless · laptop · VPN · video-conferencing · asynchronous
coworking
Shared professional space rental
- open-planLacking interior walls
- workstationTechnical computing system
- officeProfessional work location
cubicle · ergonomics · seating · floor-plan · locker · reservation · check-in · amenities · monitor · keyboard
agile
Limber and quick-moving
dynamic · scalable · modular · reconfigurable · unassigned · rotating · itinerant · peripatetic · mobile · on-demand
communal
Shared by a community
- sharedHeld in common
- poolingMerging shared contributions
- allocationDistribution of shares
multipurpose · interchangeable · common · collective · rotation · time-sharing · etiquette · courtesy · sanitization · wipe-down
hybrid
Thing of mixed parentage
- telecommutingEmployment from afar
- remoteDistant or controller
- distributedDivided and given out
virtual · digital · cloud · connectivity · wireless · laptop · VPN · video-conferencing · asynchronous
- workplacehours, cubicle, holiday party, meeting, office
- office designchair, cubicle, workstation, office chair, open plan
- office spacesoffice, office building, cubicles, conference room, private office
- remote workremote work, telework, remote job, telecommuting, remote worker
- sharing economysharing economy, timeshare, sharing, peer-to-peer, carpool
- work arrangementsjob sharing, part-time, part-time work, full-time, remote work
hot deskingremote work
Employment from afar
telecommuting · working from home · home office · home-based work · virtual office