Different takes on hotdesking

In the US, Elegant Hack on desklessness comments on Valley firms ditch desks to cut costs.

Overcrowded GCHQ reduced to hotdesking made the UK news today. As Britain's eavesdropping HQ and so the centre of the 'war on terror', GCHQ is taking on more spies than it has seats for in its shiny new building. Apparently they're sharing computers: quite how you can hotdesk without sufficient computers is beyond me.

Sir David Omand, permanent secretary and security and intelligence co-ordinator at the Cabinet Office, "claimed civil servants had not realised in 1996 that personal computers would develop in such a big way. Nor did he realise that corporations and government would be able to set up their intranets to allow data sharing."