I work in a post Covid office and even with about 1 to 6 ratio of desks to rooms, along just as many fart pods, it can be a struggle to find space during peak hours.

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yuye 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>along just as many fart pods

You mean phone coffins?

	▲	rightbyte 13 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Fart pods seem like a more accurate nomenclature to me.
	▲	CountVonGuetzli 13 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You mean rack mounts for humans?

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gerdesj 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you really have one desk per six rooms? That's pretty sparse 8)

Now the real issue is: what on earth is a fart pod?

Anyway, my (quite literally mine as in I'm the MD) tiddly company still clings to the notion that remote working is a good thing, in general. Pre-pandemic I was a sceptic and post-pandemic: I'm happy that a lot more remote working happens.

There do need to be additional controls but not of the intrusive, automated variety. I deliberately ring people up and encourage using the dog and bone and frown on email for immediate requirements.

It is a fact of modern corporate life that people will use email as it was intended: a reliable store and forward communication mechanism. A side effect is that what should be sorted out now can be ... legitimately ... punted off into tomorrow.

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wkat4242 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Not the OP but I think they mean those little phone booth pods. For if you want to join a call but you're the only one from that office so taking up a meeting room makes no sense. In our place they're tiny and stuffy (probably to prevent people hoarding them all day!). And if you fart in them it will probably hang around a long time :)

	▲	sysworld 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I thought the stairwells were the designated fart location