Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

hoteling / hotelling offices

English answer:

An office operation where space is designed for use on a shared, as-needed basis

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English term

"hoteling" offices

English Other Human Resources
Humans tend to be strongly territorial. People like to personalize their work space. Even temporary "hotelling" offices where employees ahare space and furniture, some personal touches appear.
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May 27, 2007 17:11: PB Trans Created KOG entry

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An office operation where space is designed for use on a shared, as-needed basis

Hoteling - An office operation where space is designed for use on a shared, as-needed basis. The workforce literally checks in and out of this office, using and then leaving behind its standard business tools and technologies. This alternative may be used in connection with telecommuting and mobile/virtual office. Office space is configured to employee by re-routing telephone and e-mail. Hoteling offices are typically planned to meet the needs of potential workers at the rate of 4-10 employees to a desk. Within the hoteling office there may be many different office space designs to meet various needs: a conference room, single cubes and adjoining cubes in various configurations. The cubes have a phone and a PC or a docking station. File drawers are available in common areas.
http://www.teleworkarizona.com/telefiles/twbustrat.htm

Office hotelling service in Turin, Piedmont - Rent your office in Turin for those companies in which mobile workers are not assigned offices, but must instead "reserve" an office for those times when they will not be on the road. An office in the Town of Turin for rent; you can have it for few days, weeks, months..or longer.
http://www.northwestway.it/francese/ospitalita/torino/hotell...





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Office Hoteling: Office space plan to house more people in less space by eliminating permanent offices for many employees. Allows organizations to reduce space costs by relying on technology to create the appearance of a permanent office.
http://www.officetimes.com/simplewebglossary.html#Office Hot...
Peer comment(s):

agree Kim Metzger : Nice research.
56 mins
Thank you, Kim.
agree Can Altinbay : Yes. A company I worked for a long time ago was considering it.
2 hrs
Thank you
agree Regi2006 : Some sort of short-term rental or time-share office space that is shared amongst many customers of the "office-hotel"
3 hrs
Thanks!
agree Elena Aleksandrova
6 hrs
Thank you
agree Julianne Rowland : Exactly. Coincidentally, this term just came up this week in an online translator group, and I had never heard of it.
13 hrs
Thank you, Julianne.
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rented furnished offices

seems to be the meaning of this in your context
Peer comment(s):

neutral Kim Metzger : This question obviously calls for existing knowledge or research. I don't see how guessing is of any use here.
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temporary desk space

Encarta:
providing temporary desk space for somebody: the practice of providing temporary desk space for an employee
Example sentence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling

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