Anyone else work in an office with unassigned seating? Thoughts?

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Yep. It’s pretty meh, you roam a bit and people eventually find a spot and stick to it. You feel as though you don’t have a real “home” desk wise, and it’s a bit dysfunctional when you’re trying to find someone and end up spending time wandering in circles trying to find them more than working sometimes.

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Awful. Against human nature. Inefficient. One step away from an all freelance workforce within benefits

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Open plan open disease!

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Moved from a large agency with desks to a shop that has open seating. I hate it. Had I known about it in the interview stage I would've declined the offer.

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Annoying. As SCW1 said, you tend to waste more time trying to get a spot or guarding your spot.

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I love it. We sit with the teams we work with and it's so much more collaborative than sitting by department. Allows people go get to know much more of the office.

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Absolutely hate it.

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Why though? What’s the reason for unassigned seating?

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Rumor is we’re moving to a building with unassigned seating. The problem is our team has a bunch of stuff that we need either for ourselves or to loan out (camera, dongles, boards, cardstock). Where does all that stuff go if we have no home desk? It doesn’t seem well thought out.

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I used to hot desk at my previous agency. We had “zones” for certain teams so while it was free seating, teams were in set areas so you didn’t spend 15 mins walking around trying to find one person! It also meant you were always around our own team. I loved it! I now work somewhere which is set desks and the worst thing about it is how much clutter people collect. It’s messy and makes a horrible working environment when you’re next to two people who print every email and never throw out a magazine!

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Me old shop did that, which made the bloody place feel as impersonal as a Delta sky lounge. What ultimately ended up happening is that the space eventually found its own social equilibrium — the olds in one area; the pharmacrats in another; millennial strivers over here; and the design-first do-overers right over there.

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Am I the only one with a desk but still the option of open sitting? Usually in the cafe. As long as your accountable to your team and available by Slack, text or email, it’s pretty seamless.

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This sounds like a nightmare

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I loathed every moment of it

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I agree with Global Communications Director 1, there are zones where teams sit which is great for working together and for learning from each other. No more clutter and chaos.

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Leave your shit at your desk, people don't like confrontations.

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You'll get a locker. Assuming you're not in NY?

Ooooh yeah def not. We have individual offices and it’s pretty clutch.

Yowza- I don't know if I could handle that; but I work on a tower so I guess I'd have to be an exception

We have open seating. Everyone is used to it. But we all still complain every day about packing up every single item into an assigned locker. Staff with equipment gets a storage space.

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