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My expectation is that hot desks will become the norm, as companies will (in time) decrease their office space in line with the % of the workforce who are actually in the office on an "average" day.

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Hot desks are about the dumbest thing there is. Then why go to the office at all? So you can sit next to random people on an uncomfortable table/chair for hours?

They’ll provide the family picture on the desk, to make it more personalized.

So you can have a meeting in person and/or work on hardware that's on site. That's the only reason to go to the office these days.

Here we are now really only going to the office if there's some collaborative work that would benefit from face-to-face. And in that you don't really need your own desk since you're probably going to be spending most of your time in a meeting room anyways.

I think there's some people still going to the office daily and I imagine they basically have their own dedicated desk at this point.

At some point companies may even try having some employees offer to work from somewhere other than the office, like a coffee shop or even home if you absolutely had to, to deal with any over-crowding issues that come up from this. You can’t really work in the office if it is over-subscribed. Can’t have people standing around waiting for desks. (Hmmm… or conference rooms for that matter…)

Sure you won’t get the in-office perks, but the company appreciates your understanding.

Starbucks should just open co-working spaces. It's literally just a Starbucks but with monitors, keyboards and mice.

It would be cheaper for Starbucks to open a cafe in every office instead. And we've come full circle!

I actually don't know any coworking spaces that provide monitors, much less keyboards and mice, so there's an idea to capitalize on.

They could call it something work-related, like ... WeWork? :D

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