As one of the largest tech companies in the world, Google should at least have enough supplies for their employees to each have their own, right?

Wrong.

The company has released an internal FAQ document that suggests employees share desks to cut costs.

This applies to Google Cloud employees, which account for more than 1/4 of all Google staff.

It tells workers to alternate days they’re in the office (either Monday and Wednesday, or Tuesday and Thursday) so they can share their desks with other coworkers.

Staff would be able to come in on unassigned days, but they have to use an “overflow drop-in space” in this case.

The document reads in part, “Through the matching process, they [employees] will agree on a basic desk setup and establish norms with their desk partner and teams to ensure a positive experience in the new shared environment.”

These desk-sharing bizarroland policy changes will be implemented in Google Cloud’s five largest US locations, including Kirkland, WA; New York City; San Francisco; Seattle and Sunnyvale, CA.

It also appears that they’re setting up “neighborhoods” and what essentially amounts to a desk HOA to avoid conflicts and arguments over the shared spaces.

It would probably be easier to just let people keep their current desks, but what does anyone in the world who has ever had to use their own desk know?

It would be interesting to see if executives will be sharing desks too. Smart money is on no.