hot desk

plural hot desks · alternative hot-desk · alternative hotdesk

1. A desk, or workstation, used by different employees at different times.

present singular third person hot desks · participle present hot desking · participle past hot desked · past hot desked · alternative hot-desk · alternative hotdesk

1. To use different shared desks or workstations at different times.

   Small changes on the part of workers and managers can make a difference to the experience of workers who are hot desking.

   2016, Jim Greer, Resilience and Personal Effectiveness for Social Workers, SAGE, →ISBN

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   Whenever I wasn’t glad-handing NTOC [National Threat Operations Center] leadership at headquarters, I spent my time learning everything I could—“hot-desking” with analysts who worked different programs and different types of targets, so as to be able to teach my fellow team members back in Hawaii the newest ways the agency’s tools might be used.

   2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN