What is a hot desk and what is hot desking all about?
The term Hot Desking is quoted by work place researchers as deriving from a term first coined by the US Navy - hot racking. This was the practice where the sailors on different shifts would share bunks. In the financial boom of the late 1980s when office rental costs and land prices in major financial centres went through the roof, the phrase - Hot Desking, became common place where workers shared desk space or terminals. Also in the financial markets when new computer systems were introduced these ‘seats’ would be occupied around the clock by different groups of traders following the global markets. [caption id="attachment_8" align="alignright" width="150" caption="meeting room at 20 Fletcher Gate"][/caption] Cost saving is an obvious motivation but these days hot desking provides an ideal opportunity for freelancers and…