Originally Posted by
johngwheeler
No, not really shift labor; just a standard IT industry hot-desking arrangement, which is very common in large organizations (at least in Australia!). I'm a standard sort of senior IT professional, and almost no-one gets offices, or personal cubicles anymore, even managers. The rationale is that people spend a lot of time in meetings or at other offices/customers, and that the overhead of keeping personal desks that have maybe 50% utilization is inefficient. Welcome to the modern world! I worked in one place where you had to give up the desk if you were going to be away for more than 2 hours. I hate it personally - the office becomes a completely impersonal space and you might as well sit in a a library or cafe.
I suppose with laptops, tablets, and cell phones, you really don't need much space to park. Portable tool set.
I suppose it would depend if you're working in-house, with a lot of phone support, walking to people's offices, etc, or just hitting the office a couple of times a day, the spending then rest of the time in a mobile truck (cargo bike
)
I always found it handy to have a few spare parts, test computers, keyboads, mice, etc. Anything it would take to be able to respond to an "emergency" quickly. But, then it would depend on the size of the IT department, and whether the space was shared or not.