Hotdesking is where you're not assigned a particular place to sit in any given day. At the start of each day, you must go and find a new place along with your laptop. A lot of employees no longer work full-time so companies don't provide a full-time desk. It's been estimated that it takes 18 minutes per day for the average hot-desking employee to find somewhere to sit. That adds up to 66 hours a year.