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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: Hoteling, Mobile, Microsoft Office, Worker, Office, Epazz, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Marketing
White papers 2008-07-01
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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