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    From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Vincent Coen on Tue Apr 5 08:38:00 2022
    Vincent Coen wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    You need to do light exercise - suggest walking on the spot when at
    then keyboard.

    Back in 2016, I worked in an office where treadmill desks were a thing -
    in an office in Boston, there was a line of them looking out over the river.

    People called them "zombie desks", because you sort of shambled at a slow speed while conferenced in and not paying attention to what's around you.


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  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Kurt Weiske on Tue Apr 5 23:21:22 2022
    Hello Kurt!

    Tuesday April 05 2022 08:38, you wrote to me:

    Vincent Coen wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    You need to do light exercise - suggest walking on the spot when
    at then keyboard.

    Back in 2016, I worked in an office where treadmill desks were a thing
    - in an office in Boston, there was a line of them looking out over
    the river.

    People called them "zombie desks", because you sort of shambled at a
    slow speed while conferenced in and not paying attention to what's
    around you.


    In the US, that I can easily believe and as a programmer I could see how more efficient you could be programming - or at least making more mistakes :)

    I do seem to recall that some companies even did hot desking? in the UK but I think that they had chairs and no never came across it as about that time I
    was a commercial pilot, with only the occasional bout for programming or in those days Test management when not on schedules.
    The change was a nice break.

    My back hurts thinking about doing that :(


    Vincent

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Kurt Weiske on Tue Apr 5 19:24:22 2022
    Hello Kurt,

    05 Apr 22 08:38, you wrote to Vincent Coen:

    People called them "zombie desks", because you sort of shambled at a
    slow speed while conferenced in and not paying attention to what's
    around you.

    I want to get one of those devices that allow me to pedal like on a stationary bike while sitting at my desk. That would be some very good exercise.

    -- Sean

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Vincent Coen on Wed Apr 6 14:34:00 2022
    Vincent Coen wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    I do seem to recall that some companies even did hot desking? in the UK but I think that they had chairs and no never came across it as about
    that time I was a commercial pilot, with only the occasional bout for programming or in those days Test management when not on schedules.
    The change was a nice break.

    With hybrid remote offices, hot desking makes sense. If you have a
    percentage of your workforce working remotely at any time, you can shrink
    your office footprint commensurately.

    Come in, pick a desk -- or reserve a desk before you come in online.

    The problems arise when you have someone who has their potted plants,
    pictures of their cats, pictures of their kids, *their* personal laser
    printer so they don't need to walk 20 feet to the shared printer, and so on
    - you end up with a whole office that rotates in and out around them.

    I worked at a company that ramped up their VPN solution and offered remote work. Part of the deal was that you had to give up your desk space. Out of
    100 users, 90 desks went back to people who needed to be onsite, and the
    other 10 were turned into hot desks for remote workers to use when they came into the office. It worked out well, as we'd just started rolling out Skype for Business phones, and people were reachable by their desk phone numbers wherever they were.

    At another branch, it failed miserably because the users wanted "their"
    desks waiting for them when they came into the office.

    Mind you, these were in two of the most impacted and costly real estate
    areas - San Jose and San Francisco.

    Post-covid, I'm not sure how hot-desking will fly, unless you have stringent cleaning protocols.




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