Your Own Desk at Work Now Classified as "Waste" - Google Initiates Desk-Sharing

 You are back in the office. Probably not five days a week as in pre-COVID times. But back. When you are there you probably will be transitioning from the old-fashioned notion of having your own desk. Instead you probably will be desk-sharing or, as it is called, "hoteling." So, bring a sack to cart around your pens and the photo of your significant other. 

Google is the most recent to announce desk-sharing, reports Yahoo Finance. Having your own desk is classified as "waste." 

That's driven by the determination to reduce costs. Overall, corporations are reducing the expense of a large real estate footprint. 

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