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hot-desking, n. orig. and chiefly Brit.
Brit. |ˈhɒtdɛskɪŋ|, U.S. |ˈhɑtˌdɛskɪŋ|
[‹ hot desk n. + -ing suffix1. Compare slightly later hot-desk v.]
The practice of allocating or using desks or workstations on a temporary, ad hoc, or part-time basis rather than assigning them permanently to particular individuals, esp. operated as a means of saving office space and resources.
1991Sunday Times 5 May iv. 17/1 The new trend, ‘hot desking’, is that desks are shared between several people who use them at different times. This has been made possible because more people are now working from home or with the customer. 1994Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 6 Apr. d1 They're designing new systems, sometimes called hoteling, hot-desking or just-in-time offices, that let professionals reserve their offices as they would hotel rooms—that is, only when they need them. 2000C. Kelly Cassandra in J. Adams et al. Girls' Night In 158 She was stuck out in the freelance Siberia where everyone shared desks in that horrible hot-desking system. |