It's no real secret that I'm not a fan of hot-desking.
For a start, hot-desking is an ergonomic nightmare. Humans need to be able to set up their workstation according to their own bodily dimensions, and no two people are the same. In a hot-desking environment, the best you can get is kind of an average setting that sort of works for most people.
In an ideal world, a hot-desking environment will have equipment that is infinitely adjustable, so that when you move to a desk, it is a matter of seconds to move everything (keyboard, mouse, monitor, desk, chair) to a position that is comfortable and appropriate.
There are no ideal worlds.
Currently I have two monitors sitting on top of cardboard boxes. One of them has a couple of inches of up-and-down adjustability, but it's not a lot. The other isn't height-adjustable at all.
I like to have my monitors really high because of my neck. In some previous jobs where I've had a permanent desk, I've been able to set it all up the way I like it. I can't do that here. We don't have the equipment to do that.
Let me whine a little bit about chairs, too. I spend seven hours a day plonked on my ass in front of a computer. I think that in order to do that, one needs a decent chair. This chair I'm on now is not decent. It's moderately adjustable, I guess, but the seat seems to be sloped, so I always feel like I'm sliding off the chair forwards. Also, this angle changes the way my hips, legs and back relate to each other, which means that I find myself sitting with my hips tilted forward rather than curled up under me. This sways my back and pushes out my belly and chest. It's not really uncomfortable, but it is uncomfortable. If I bring my pelvis back under me the way that feels right, I start sliding off the front of the chair.
There are a few chairs here that are... let's say reasonable, but most are old pieces of shit. We spend seven hours a day on these chairs. Surely we deserve some new ones.
If I had my way, we'd have all new chairs, all new adjustable monitor stands/arms, and no hot-desking.
