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It was called "Hotdesking" 10+ years ago and it was a failure then, too. Architect Rem Koolhaas ran his office with it, and people hated it.


Didn't Sun also employ this strategy to somewhat better effect? I can see a group of architects hating something like that due to the nature of their work and the proliferation of tools they need at their desk, and for some types of software development, I can see the same problem with hotdesking (makes it harder to run a really crazy workstation with a lot of monitors for one thing). I suppose now you can just get away with a laptop and a huge EC2 instance for heavy lifting...

Anyone here work at Sun during their Nettop hotdesking phase? What were some of the pros and cons?


Yes, they did, though I don't know about "to better effect".

Chiat Day was another notorious hotdesking failure.



Off topic, but Rem Koolhaas's design for the campus center for my alma mater is the primary reason I refuse to donate money to them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCormick_Tribune_Campus_Center . Worst. Campus Center. Ever.




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