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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by rwmj on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:30PM (#25009348)
The worst part of hot-desking in my experience is you always seem to end up next to some guy from marketing who is on their phone all day, and as a result you get absolutely no thinking time.
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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by newen on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:39PM (#25009435)
Same problem comes up with open offices. Some ass from another department constantly talking on the phone 9 to 5. I developed a Pavlovian twitch every time his phone rang.
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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by djrogers on Friday November 06, 2020 @03:04PM (#25010642)
> Some ass from another department constantly talking on the phone 9 to 5.

Dude, that guy's job probably relied on him being on the phone all day - he's just doing it. It's not his fault that you can hear him, it's your office manager/designer.

Some of us really do have to spend a huge chunk of our day talking to other people on the phone, zoom, etc. There's n other way to get our jobs done, and if they don't give us private office space to do it in, then we have to do it in the open space they do give us.

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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by derivagral on Friday November 06, 2020 @03:23PM (#25010782)
The counter-anecdote is my first job out of college where a VP would conduct personal calls in the open space office... loudly and emotionally.

Open offices usually at least have quieter spots if you get in early enough, in my experience.

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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by ethbr0 on Friday November 06, 2020 @01:37PM (#25009995)
"Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment!"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oFwkL1WgD_0

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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by lostlogin on Friday November 06, 2020 @03:05PM (#25010650)
This sounds like hell. Was there a reason it wasn’t split by department - eg sales, accounting, engineering etc?
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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by rwmj on Friday November 06, 2020 @04:18PM (#25011272)
That's the point of hot-desking, there's a single big room and you pick a free desk.
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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by JoeAltmaier on Friday November 06, 2020 @04:22PM (#25011312)
Got to wonder - why are you there at all? How is this one particle better from working at home? Clearly you're not there because of the environment (proximity to folks on your team etc)
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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by rwmj on Saturday November 07, 2020 @03:23AM (#25013803)
I'm not there, I work from home.
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