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Hot desking

Meaning in office & administration, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In office & administration, hot desking means: An office arrangement in which staff do not have their own fixed desk but use any free desk, often booked in advance through an app.

In Turkish: esnek masa düzeni, paylaşımlı masa sistemi, sabit masasız çalışma

How it is used

Common in offices with hybrid working, where not everyone is in every day. Staff keep their belongings in lockers and leave a clear desk at the end of the day. Desk booking is a related term. Also written hot-desking.

Example sentences

  1. Since we moved to hot desking, you need to book a desk in the app the day before.

  2. Hot desking works well for us because most of the team is in the office only two days a week.

Common collocations

  • hot desking policy
  • move to hot desking
  • hot desk
  • desk booking
  • clear desk policy
  • office managerThe person responsible for the smooth running of an office, including facilities, supplies, admin staff, office budgets and contact with suppliers.
  • bookTo arrange and reserve something in advance, such as a meeting room, a flight, a hotel room, a table or a person's time.
  • adminShort for administration: the everyday organising work of an office, such as emails, filing, scheduling, forms and keeping records up to date.
  • shared driveA storage space on a company network or in the cloud where colleagues save, open and edit the same files.

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