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It doesn't take much for drama to appear in an office with no assigned workspaces. All it takes is someone who refuses to use the system to book their own desk, so they simply sit wherever they like, regardless of whether someone else booked it. Then, when the person who actually booked that desk shows up, they have to work it out between them, which is not something many workers are capable of doing.
When the employee in the story below booked a desk that a general manager from another department normally works at, they knew they would probably have to fight for it. The general manager never books the desk; he simply decided that it's his, but since the system clearly states that no one has a designated workspace, nothing was stopping the employee from booking the desk for themselves.
They weren't really surprised when they received an email from the GM the day before demanding the “release of the desk” so that the GM could sit there instead. And still, the employee refused to give up the space after they followed all the rules to be able to sit there for the day.
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Businessman in red open space office.
Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.
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AITA for refusing to give up a hot desking seat the GM thinks is “his”?
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Young man working in his open space workplace.
Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.
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Is this desk really worth all this drama? If there are enough workspaces in the office, why fight for this one?
This just goes to show how terrible a hot desking system is, and why no office should try it.
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