Marriott Hotels is removing the desks from rooms at all its hotels. It is doing this worldwide. The hotel chain says that as far it is concerned young people don’t use desks because they work on their phones. The decision, as reported by the CBC, has caused a firestorm of reaction from travellers who think “working on your phone” is like riding a pogo stick from Toronto to Vancouver. The move seems reminiscent of the early Internet days when offices were about to vanish. Dan Wetzel a sports columnist for Yahoo has written that he was told by staff at a Marriott that the absence of desks was caused by the habits of millennials (born 1980 to 2000 more or less) “who don’t use desks’ but rather prefer to “hang out”. Don’t we all.
