While some employees embrace the flexibility and casual ambience of unassigned seating, losing a desk is a wrenching change for others. Getting used to it requires time, some give-and-take by employers and often a little etiquette training. “I had Post-its everywhere,” she says, plus a drawer filled with proposals and a standing file on her desk. Genentech says a move to unassigned seating by some employee groups at its California headquarters has increased productivity. Some 10% of employers offering unassigned seating also added more cleaning services, the facility-management association survey says.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 15, 2018 13:18 UTC