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Getting Activ with hot-desking ACTIV BUSINESS SOLUTIONS has created a solution for organising hot-desking in small to medium-sized businesses – and its creator believes it can generate other opportunities for dealers to make money
T
he pandemic forced
to have so many people in the office and
many business owners
making breakout spaces instead.
to rethink their office
“That traditional, white/blue collar
spaces, as hybrid
factory, work environment where most
working and social
people eat lunch at their desk, where they
distancing became the
don’t have somewhere to walk away to, is
norm. Some have looked to reconfigure their
declining,” Michael says. A lot of people
workspaces, putting in more meeting rooms,
have realised they want to make the office a
breakout spaces and areas for online meetings.
more appetising place for people to drive 30
Michael Lowes, managing director
minutes there and back.”
of Activ Business Solutions, has seen this trend develop since the second lockdown.
RISE OF HOT-DESKING
“It was then that we started doing lots of
As a result of these reconfigurations,
reconfiguration of offices – moving desks
and the growth of hybrid working, some
and making a space where people wanted to
managers have decided to take away the
come back to, giving them confidence to do
traditional desk assigned to a particular
so,” he says.
person and implement a hot-desking policy
People are still making significant decisions – downsizing, but into a nicer environment, or upscaling if they have done well, or repurposing and planning not
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– which makes sense if people are not regularly in the office. While hot-desking in these circumstances has its advantages, it also
