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[quote=Anonymous]I've always been in places with cubicles or offices, no hotdesking, so I honestly don't understand how stuff like these examples function:

[quote]DH's company had that for years in-house, and it was incredibly inefficient compared to people having offices. Constantly rescheduling daily confidential calls because the conference rooms were in use, used too long, suddenly unavailable due to some other priority, and so on. Half the day was spent in endless and pointless logistics instead of work.[/quote]

[quote]Private sector. If you can't get one of the desks in the long line with 1 or 2 monitors you have to float around and just hopefully find an outlet in a common space with chairs and couches that are great for lounging but awkward as hell with a laptop. [/quote]

[quote]We are private sector, but they got rid of offices and our desks are lined up in long rows facing each other to fit in the maximum number of desks. We hot desk, so if you get up for a meeting or to get lunch you lose your seat and have to find a new desk. This way far more people can use the office than the number of actual desks. [/quote]

So, how does work get done? Because if you want me to wander around all day looking for a seat or a conference room, fine, but I'm still going home at 5 whether I got the work done or not. So do private sector folks waste these hours looking for a space, and then stay late to do actual work because they're afraid of getting fired? Because I can guarantee you government workers I know won't do this. If they waste 3 hours of an 8 hour day on this, they are still clocking out and simply lose 3 hours of productivity. And they have protections from getting fired that DOGE can't just wave away as easily as they could theoretically require RTO. [/quote]

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