At Jana and other places I've worked in the past, we regularly shuffle everyone's desks. This explains how and why we do this, with links to further information.
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HOW DOES IT WORK?
• Every desk has a number
• Someone writes numbers on post-its
• Err’body draws one number from hat
• Err’body trades as much as they like
• Unlimited: just convince the other person
• Err’body moves stuff
• Err’body makes new friends
Note: only move useful stuff.
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WHY DO IT?
• Learn how other people & groups work
• Facilitates knowledge-sharing, ideas
• Make new friends
• Opportunity to get/avoid window seats, move
closer/further from specific people
• Lots of science behind it:
• Allen Curve (original)
• Newly popularized: WSJ, HBR
• Semi-forced office cleanup
• Experiment: if we don’t like it, stop.