hot desk

See also: hotdesk and hot-desk

English

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Noun

hot desk (plural hot desks)

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

Verb

hot desk (third-person singular simple present hot desks, present participle hot desking, simple past and past participle hot desked)

  1. To use different shared desks or workstations at different times.
    • 2016, Jim Greer, Resilience and Personal Effectiveness for Social Workers, SAGE, →ISBN:
      Small changes on the part of workers and managers can make a difference to the experience of workers who are hot desking.
    • 2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
      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.

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