Facebook’s new headquarters are something to look at; with 2,800 employees and an open workplace, this design is both complicated and effortless to accommodate.
These headquarters which opened earlier this year, is known as Building 20 and spans 40,000 square-metres, on a nine hectare site just across a highway from Facebook’s existing campus, which originally had been built for Sun Microsystems.
It is evident that this plan is an attempt to encourage interaction, collaboration and transparency among the employees and to spread the feeling of equality. Natural light pours in through skylights and massive windows as if to point out the passing of time. Building 20’s unfinished look — exposed steel girders, concrete floors and wires dangling from the soaring ceiling to desks below — recalls a fledgling start-up instead of the world’s largest online social network, with 1.5 billion monthly active users worldwide.
“It’s intended to be a symbol of what we believe at Facebook, which is that our work is unfinished,” said Lori Goler, vice president of people.
The entire span of the office is made up of simple desks without any dividers, or cubicles. There’s no space to pin up personal pictures, or set up physical calendars. “No one has a swanky office setup,” Lindsay Russell, a brand strategist, said. “The equipment is there to help you move fast and do good work. That’s it.”
The result is an unexpected freedom to focus on work.
“I’m not as tied to my desk,” Russell said. “I can’t imagine being in any other work environment.”
Even chief executive Mark Zuckerberg sits out in the open at one of those simple white desks. An office is not one of perks to being the billionaire founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most important companies.
Meeting rooms are scattered all over the floor, open to anyone for usage. They are whimsically-named neighbourhoods, such as music festivals or media mash-ups. So a worker knows that the room called “13 Going on 30 Rock” is near “Clockwork Orange is the new Black.”
Other major Silicon Valley firms such as Apple and Google are planning futuristic workplaces, too.
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Author:Technology Blog
