I miss the offices of old... In particular, Microsoft's old policy of putting people in individual offices.
I miss the offices of old... In particular, Microsoft's old policy of putting people in individual offices.
Interestingly, Apple re-leased the W SJ Triangle Building they used to occupy in the 80's & 90's that had a giant vintage rainbow Apple logo facing I-280. It has had a history of short-term occupancy post-Apple with Accolade (games) and various other tenants over the decades.
Mega rich tech areas ought to reinvest in the future by launching teaching venues and community-focused employee-/member-owned co-op sw/hw hackspaces-library-event-makespaces if they really want to attract people who aren't interested in, are put-off, or can't afford corporate-focused/-gatekept "innovation centers". Co-working space is so commodified, it needs to be local and special rather than transactional to draw people. There is/was a church (Spark perhaps) in Palo Alto that had quite a large coworking space, and the folks there were really cool.
30 years in the future, when everyone and their dog learned to code and the market got flooded with programmers.
If you look at SW from the NEXT era, there were like 1 to 5 programmers, all stallions, per SW product, so no wonder everyone had their own office.