Manager steals coworker's desk, leaving their belongings there every night despite 'hot desk' rule: 'I came in to find their stuff on the desk but they were nowhere to be found until an hour later'

So it's understandable that you would want to protect your space. But what happens when your company implements a policy like “hot desking,” where nobody's desk really belongs to them? This has become an increasingly common practice in the era of hybrid work, where in-person spaces hold less power. They're also a way to foster collaboration, though employees generally end up sitting in the same places anyway. That's what one worker was doing, until his difficult-to-deal-with manager decided to break the rules and claim the place for herself. But the original desk owner was not too keen on letting that go so soon. Read on to see what happened in this story.