Kinda interesting how the comfort area of engineers are a games lounge with a ping pong table and the comfort area of business professionals are seemingly hotel lobbies
I'm not convinced of the reasons they're trying to demonstrate to the public. I think either they're cost cutting, or they're making the office modular or malleable to be able to hire fast or fire fast. It just doesn't make sense to me why this office would be better for business professionals.
Yeah, I was thinking that campus looked like a terrible workplace to me. Then I realized everyone was on laptops and they're probably mostly sales people, so I guess maybe that works for them. However, I think some of the discourse just sounds like a bunch of buzzwords and I'd like to see how the space changes in 2 to 5 years
@@fruwuitsalad You're clearly not a programmer or someone that actually does something productive. I'm guessing marketing or some other nonsense that doesn't actually require concentration or thought.
For real, even just looking at the space has me worried. Some people need more private quiet space to get work done quickly ... Then intentionally go to a common area to interact with others.
If you're curious, 100 million square feet is a square where each side is 3.58 miles (5.76 km). So, this would be roughly 1/10 the size of San Francisco.
@@Zeusgodofthunder The math is correct; Your thinking is off! It never said the building is one level ! ! ! "It was built INSIDE AND ON TOP OF ..." More than one level!
When you say someone has to pay for "all of this", are you referring to what we saw in this video? Or are you referring to the services I am positive you use from Google on a daily basis, countless times throughout the day, including Gmail, RU-vid, Google search itself, Google Maps, I could go on.
@@Carlos-gm3zn Google started like any other company. They are not a government service that you have a right to. You are the one that decided to go on the internet and use any service of Google. If you think they or any other free service is there for truly altruistic purposes alone and can somehow stay afloat on that principle than you live in a fantasy world.
I worked in this area for 3 years. Everyone who isn't rolling in 8 figure bank account absolutely HATES it. The square footage prices for commercial rent are through the stratosphere so small mom and pop shops can't go anywhere near this. Independent restauranteurs can't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Even some big names couldnt' open up in the Hudson Yards mall without major backing which most didn't get so food options that another major city would be rife with will never happen in this part of NYC. Small shops for groceries definitely not happening. Any gyms are the kind that cost as much a Mercedes payment. Basically the only options for foot traffic visitors are the mega corporations who can afford to run a location at a loss. So it all creates this "gentrified bubble" that is becoming the hallmark of the west side developments. Eventually those inside the bubble get bored of the options and being walled off from the real world. This is going to become a thing in urban planning.
Thanks for the insight. You are describing the sad reality of present-day Manhattan. A place which no longer has any real neighborhoods, long term residents or families. A place which has completely lost its soul.
you realise they are free to come and go? they will have other desks and areas. That's a break out / lounge area. Come on guys they are not staying there for 8 hours.
@@fergal2424 But almost every room looks like a break out/lounge area and if it’s for taking a break, why are they working on their laptops in it?! Even the desks shown in the video look cramped and had no privacy.
@@cal3190 Because they can come and go, and laptops because most are probably hybrid workers. :) You don't need much desk space whenever your entire work set up is a Macbook and maybe an external monitor? Typing this from a 'cramped' desk in office at the mo. Perfectly comfortable and can move around if I choose.
@@siansphericaThey have normal desks too. Sometimes we go here bc we have easy work that don’t require an actual desk. It’s also nice to get away from the work desk every now and then.
"we're mandating back to office because collaboration is key to our success!" - literally every employee on their laptop not talking to anybody throughout the entire video
Working for a company having a yearly net income of more than 70 billion USD must be amazing. They obviously make well-calculated financial decisions, but when they do make a decision they have almost unlimited funds to carry it out. 2 billion or 20 billion - it's just 3 months of savings apart.
I’d still rather have my own office with walls and a door. Apparently they have so much freedom yet anyone walking by can always see what’s on your screen or what paperwork is on your desk.
yeah I noticed that. it's strange how there aren't doors, what if you need a meeting with someone and don't want anyone to hear? idk maybe it's super critical or something.
@@Timely-ud4rmmost top companies around the world are the same , they have the same open office concept , it could be because you are more likely to be productive that way who knows .
That is precisely the purpose of having an ''open concept'' so the team leads can keep an eye on every screen from afar without interrupting the flow. Once an engineer is ''wired in'' nothing and no-one should intrude. On the other hand the very privacy people - outside the tech world -, are moaning about is clearly done and dusted; the main reason why Mark proclaimed back in 2012 "Privacy doesn't exist anymore. Get over it." So there is that.
Honestly this just seems like how a good college/university is set up - you can work (study) in cafes, libraries, outside, wherever. That's probably a lot of the inspiration.
@@2011bluemantbh if you truly want to be productive you need a place with a balance a place to read and loosen and a place to work too, like personally I can be working or studying take 5 mins break play sports or watch RU-vid helps the mind loosen up
The original building had 205,000 square feet divided on 3 floors. That's 68,333 square feet per floor, if they are of equal size. Take the 9 extra floors that they built, and that gives us 819,996 square feet (once again, if they are of equal size). But they clearly are not... Because they shortened the old building and the new floors don't cover the exact same footprint as the shortened old ones. So it is likely closer to 500,000 square feet. In other words 1/200 of 100 milion. For reference. The Pentagon, is the second largest office building in the world, and it is "only" 6,636,360 sq ft.
It’s amazing to watch all these corporate office videos and hearing the architects and reps talk non stop about “creating a unique environment” “we didn’t want to be just another office” etc….. every single one of these tours looks like every other office, generic corporate office space. “Ooooh, we added a retro futuristic chair in the break room, we’re so different!” This place looks just as depressing as every other corporate office video I’ve seen lol
How could they not make it depressing? How could the office be a lovely workspace that people are exited to work in? I think the plants are lovely and rarely any other office spaces have as many plants as there offices.
imagine if they took all the food away and only had a cart with bananas, like multi-trillion dollar amazon. that billion dollar boat aint gonna pay for itself, amirite?
@@m._.m3180 almost like offices for most white collar workers is a waste of money since they could just do that from home, that point went over your head pretty easily
WFH shows that people want a private office to work in, not a simulation of a coffeeshop. But even with this outlandish amount of floorspace the employees are still bumper to bumper. All the glass and concretes going to make it very reverby and noisy as well.
yeah sometimes its fun to be in this shared spaces, but for real intensive work its better to be in the zone in your own office walled off without the feeling of the gaze of others on your back
When people said they hated the cubical they didn't mean, they wanted to sit in the same long row, just without the privacy. And to take calls in an - even smaller - cubical they have to share now with their co-workers. They wanted offices or home office.
From $10K to $110K, that's the minimum range of profit return every week. I think it's not a bad one for me, now l have enough to pay bills and take care of my family
the EXACT reason why working from home is so much better and also google could save so much money having people work from home and then just come in for meetings
Honest question, what would you like to see instead? What is your ideal alternative if you were the designer and had free reign? "Remote" is cheating, as that misses the point.
Am I the only one who watched this and missed old school 80s and 90s offices?? These modern "cool" offices feel cold with cheap and colourful looking furniture. And no one there seems to be interacting and enjoying being there.
@@openmike4559 That's yet to be realized. Them trying to skeleton staff or offshore teams (including essential teams) could easily become a net negative in the medium term.
Notice how at a software company it didn't look like any programmers were actually working in the building. Those people were marketing type employees. No one that has to actually be productive wants to work in open space offices like that.
it was great work. I noticed all of it. I made a horizontal Slat wall, similar to the one shown, for my corp office. Thiers was much cooler. -amature woodworker
"step inside this 100 million square foot space". Just for context, 100 million square feet is: - 36 empire state buildings -16x the size of the Pentagon -7.2% the land size of San Francisco -2.7x the size of central park in NYC -23x the size of LAX's terminal space -250 titanics -556 manhattan city blocks -30x Burj Khalifas -50x the size of the library of congress
If you're trying to make the point that paying fewer wages helped fund the construction of this building, I don't know why you're being so dramatic about such a simple conclusion.
remember not to get too comfortable - it's a nice environment but none of it is yours, you only take home what you earn and they will not hesitate to let you go.
I developed tendinitis and I can’t use my laptop anymore and I see all of these people sitting in the worst positions ever 😂 for me that’s almost painful to watch 😂
everyone is laughing at you for not knowing that it's a multi-trillion dollar company. the layoffs were probably to get rid of people that cant count. 🤣🤣🤣
@@2011blueman they bought a property for 2 billion and can sell it for 10 billion. stick to your toilet cleaning job and leave investment strategies to those that can think.
In my opinion, the focus of the type of business is the key. It is not the same if it is designed to be a workshop, a business center or a school or training center; Each one requires a different type of environment and a different degree of interaction and that is (obviously in my opinion) the key in this project. That's why I like the idea of modular meeting rooms and I've seen in convention centers that there are rooms that can accommodate several hundred attendees and, if they are divided with modular walls they can be more rooms and for fewer people and of course, if my team is 10 people, I won't need as much space as if I had a talk for 20 or more attendees. I think that this idea of Google (or whatever company it is) is important to imply that the key to a business or company is that the employee comes to their workplace on the one hand happy and satisfied with their work there, but also to feel that the workplace is not hostile to them and that they can gather new contacts and get agreements there.
