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Business Definition for: Hoteling

  • the practice of occupying a desk or workspace in another employer's premises. Hoteling is normally carried out by employees such as consultants or salespeople, who spend more time with customers than at their employers' offices and rely on their clients to provide desk space. Hoteling has developed through improved information and communications technologies and is an extension of the virtual office.

Additional Resources

"Hoteling" maximizes space, enhances interaction. (flexible-workspace design concept used by Ernst & Young Management Consulting Group)
As the hoteling concept is implemented in more organizations, specific design elements have been evaluated and modified to facilitate hotelers' unique requirements. As the hoteling concept is implemented in more organizations, specific design elements have been evaluated and modified to facilitate ...
Tags: Ernst & Young LLP
Research articles 1994-05-01
'Hoteling': Employees share desks as they check in to work
Ernst & Young expects to outgrow the space it leases at 2601 Market Place in Susquehanna Township. But the Big Six consulting and accounting firm won't move into new digs. Instead, it will absorb its new employees through the latest trend in office-space design: Hoteling. Already, Ernst & Young's Philadelphia...
Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Harrisburg
Research articles 1998-04-17
'Hoteling': Employees share desks as they check in to work
Ernst & Young expects to outgrow the space it leases at 2601 Market Place in Susquehanna Township. But the Big Six consulting and accounting firm won't move into new digs. Instead, it will absorb its new employees through the latest trend in office-space design: Hoteling. Already, Ernst & Young's Philadelphia...
Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, SALES
Research articles 1998-04-17
Improving Office Productivity: Shared Workspace, Meeting Rooms, Conference Rooms Software
Desk sharing among mobile workers is known by several names: hoteling, hot-desking, virtual office, etc. It's simple and powerful. Mobile workers, like sales representatives, consultants, auditors, and even telecommuters, are often out of the office more than they are in. Hoteling maximizes utilization of space by sharing fewer office resources...
Tags: Software, Mobile, Microsoft Office, Worker, Office, Hoteling, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
White papers 2008-07-01
Is Hot Desking a Cool Idea -- or a Catastrophe?
My brother, a muckety-muck for storage vendor Sepaton, stopped by yesterday en route to Red Herring 100, where he's part of a panel discussing clean technology. Over lunch he told me that one of the speakers would be discussing new software to enable hot desking. Hot...
Tags: Desk, CC Holland, Hardware, Storage, Thin Clients, Files
Blog posts 2008-05-13
Postscript: hoteling. (guiding concept for IBM's New Jersey facility)
IBM program manager Gary Schmidt talks about the concept guiding the New Jersey installation designed by The Switzer Group. IBM program manager Gary Schmidt talks about the concept guiding the New Jersey installation designed by The Switzer Group.
Tags: Gary, IBM Corp., PostScript
Research articles 1995-03-01
Federal distributed work case study: IRS flexiplace and hoteling pilot
A recent IRS case study shows how federal managers can implement new requirements to enable 100 percent of eligible agency employees to telecommute by 2004. Part 2 of teleworking in the public sector.
Tags: Internal Revenue Service
Research articles 2001-12-22
Hitachi Systems Deploys Aruba Wireless LAN in New All-Wireless Office
Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), a global leader in wireless LANs and secure unified mobility solutions, today announced that Aruba reseller Hitachi Systems & Services HSAS has deployed an all-wireless Aruba network at its Omori Building in Tokyo. The new 12 floor facility enables employees to work from any...
Tags: Hitachi Ltd., LAN, WLAN
Research articles 2008-05-15
Hackensack Finds its Mojo(s)
Mojo... a term with many meanings over the years, in various contexts, but in today's media world, it refers to the new breed of mobile journalists using technology to work remotely. Most bloggers, naturally, are mojos, but increasing numbers of conventional journalists are as well. For example,...
Tags: Journalist, Office, Borg, E-mail, Blogging, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, David Weir
Blog posts 2008-07-02
Time Sharing.
For Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco, Bottom/Duvivier designs staff quarters with hoteling and permanent needs in mind. Deloitte Consulting, an international spin-off from the accounting giant Deloitte and Touche LLP, required some fancy consulting work of its own. Moving its San Francisco...
Tags: consultant, consulting, Deloitte LLP, Outsourcing
Research articles 1999-01-01
Versatile bureaucracy: a telework case study: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office uses telework as a cost-effective way to manage human capital, boost productivity, and improve the quality of employee lives
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Today, as federal agencies wrestle with issues of employee recruitment, retention, and cost containment, telework has emerged as a vital tool that many of them, including the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO, use to address management challenges. USPTO runs seventeen telework programs, the two largest...
Tags: agency, Campbell, MARKETING, training, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Research articles 2007-12-22
Performance of mobile worker tied to flexible office design.
How and where America works continues to undergo dramatic shifts - from the traditional arrangement with all employees in the office at individual desks, to more and more people working in "alternative office settings." These include home offices, work stations, shared offices and "hoteling" situations. Recent...
Tags: Quill Corp.
Research articles 1996-06-01
NetSimplicity Launches Mobile Workforce Manager
Asure Software (NASDAQ: ASUR), a leading provider of workforce management software, today announced the general availability of Mobile Workforce Manager, a product that greatly streamlines and simplifies the scheduling of flexible workspaces for mobile workers. Mobile Workforce Manager is a powerful web-based tool that allows mobile employees to reserve...
Tags: Asure Software
Research articles 2007-11-28
The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif., Andy McCue Column.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 12--'THE OFFICE' TAKES ON NEW MEANING AT ERNST YOUNG: Kevin Kelly is Area Director of Human Resources, Pacific South West Area, Ernst Young, LLP. Earlier this week, Kevin Kelly was also a "hoteling guest" in Ernst...
Tags: Press-Enterprise Inc.
Research articles 1998-11-12
Asure Software Announces Mobile Device Features in Latest Release of Mobile Workforce Manager
Asure Software (NASDAQ: ASUR), a leading provider of workforce management solutions, announced today the general availability of the latest version of NetSimplicity's Mobile Workforce Manager NMWM. Mobile Workforce Manager is a robust hoteling application that interfaces with NetSimplicity's leading meeting room scheduling software, Meeting Room Manager...
Tags: Asure Software
Research articles 2008-12-18