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> What the point of not having assigned desks if you still have as many desks as employees?

This is the point:

> https://www.wired.com/1999/02/chiat-3/

> As the unofficial story goes, Jay Chiat was skiing down a mountain in Telluride when it dawned on him that the conventional American office structure was antiquated and counterproductive; that revolution was not only inevitable but overdue; and that destiny had selected him, Jay Chiat, as its agent of change.

So the boss can see himself as a trend-setting visionary.

That link it pretty interesting, since it was clear that "hoteling" was awful 20 years ago in 1999. It's bizarre that I was reading about the how terrible 2019's trends in office space are when I was a kid.



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