This is what I hate about my company’s hybrid RTO policy. There aren’t enough seats for everyone and it’s not full RTO so we have to schedule our desks ahead of time. Aside from the typical back to office complaints, here are all the reasons I’ve found that hot seats suck:
You have to bring all your shit and pack it all up again before you leave including keyboard, mouse, my foot rest because I’m short, etc.
You have to readjust the desk, chair, and monitor every time you come in.
Because of the previous, the monitor is loaded with grubby fingerprints.
Not all desks are the same. Some are in better locations, some have 1 monitor and some have 2, some are longer, some are more adjustable, etc, etc and people fight for the best desks.
There aren’t enough meeting rooms and call booths for everyone and people will often just take a room for extended lengths of time or just take a room you signed up for.
They make the argument that we need to make connections in person, but my team is in another part of the country and every time I come in, I’m sitting by new people which prevents me from making relationships with people I would otherwise sit nearby on a regular basis thus defeating the purpose.
I feel this in my soul. I’m officed Mondays and Tuesdays. I’m 5 foot 6, and the guy on Wednesday and Thursdays is really, really tall.
I sure do love adjusting my desk and chair every Monday after Manute Bol’s been sitting there, and I’m sure that every Wednesday he’s wondering how my trip carrying the ring to Mordor is going that I started after work the previous day.
My company is the same. I love when we all come together in person once a week to sit at our desks and put on our headphones and spend half the day on Zoom calls with our colleagues because they work at an office in a different city.
This is what I hate about my company’s hybrid RTO policy. There aren’t enough seats for everyone and it’s not full RTO so we have to schedule our desks ahead of time. Aside from the typical back to office complaints, here are all the reasons I’ve found that hot seats suck:
You have to bring all your shit and pack it all up again before you leave including keyboard, mouse, my foot rest because I’m short, etc.
You have to readjust the desk, chair, and monitor every time you come in.
Because of the previous, the monitor is loaded with grubby fingerprints.
Not all desks are the same. Some are in better locations, some have 1 monitor and some have 2, some are longer, some are more adjustable, etc, etc and people fight for the best desks.
There aren’t enough meeting rooms and call booths for everyone and people will often just take a room for extended lengths of time or just take a room you signed up for.
They make the argument that we need to make connections in person, but my team is in another part of the country and every time I come in, I’m sitting by new people which prevents me from making relationships with people I would otherwise sit nearby on a regular basis thus defeating the purpose.
I feel this in my soul. I’m officed Mondays and Tuesdays. I’m 5 foot 6, and the guy on Wednesday and Thursdays is really, really tall.
I sure do love adjusting my desk and chair every Monday after Manute Bol’s been sitting there, and I’m sure that every Wednesday he’s wondering how my trip carrying the ring to Mordor is going that I started after work the previous day.
This is where you plan the number of monitors. I’m one of the few desks that don’t have two, so no one else wants it and I never need to readjust
My company is the same. I love when we all come together in person once a week to sit at our desks and put on our headphones and spend half the day on Zoom calls with our colleagues because they work at an office in a different city.