We moved to a shared desk model at the start of the year and it's going great. It was adopted as part of making hybrid schedules permanent and I see the trade off as a win-win. Company gets to consolidate space and shed a lease, employees get to spend more time remote with some assurance the rug on remote work won't be pulled out from under us. The office environment is also more lively compared to the ghost town we had over the past couple of years which is a nice change of pace (minus the extra noise of course). I also prefer the shared desk model to the hotdesk model as I always have a dedicated space, but only on a part-time basis.
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Reply to Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge From free message therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers by science-raven
We moved to a shared desk model at the start of the year and it's going great. It was adopted as part of making hybrid schedules permanent and I see the trade off as a win-win. Company gets to consolidate space and shed a lease, employees get to spend more time remote with some assurance the rug on remote work won't be pulled out from under us. The office environment is also more lively compared to the ghost town we had over the past couple of years which is a nice change of pace (minus the extra noise of course). I also prefer the shared desk model to the hotdesk model as I always have a dedicated space, but only on a part-time basis.