The new Google campus in Madrid occupies a former five-storey 19th century battery factory in the city designed by London based Jump Studios.
Inside – as you’d expect – modular work spaces, meeting rooms, a cafeteria and a 200 capacity auditorium for the campus’s 7000 staff.
Oh, they’ll be sick as pikes down in Grand Canal Dock.
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I’ve toured the Google Grand Canal campus extensively. Pretty period building aside, I would say that the scale and level of fit-out in the Grand Canal campus is far superior to this.
Extensively? That’s alot of touring.
and the boys on their apple macs :) the irony!
More facilities to stop workers getting a life outside the corporation. You are far better working in a plain office where you can have a separate work and social life. It makes it a lot easier to leave the job as you don’t have to leave your gym / social club / only circle of friends at the same time.
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Luckily savvy AlisonT is here to pull the wool away from our eyes.
– Yes it is a lovely building but if you wouldn’t mind just handing over your soul on entry to the lady on the left…she’ll give you an unnecessarily large lanyard in return, your world is now ours now, you’ll love it…you *cough* better
– yeah! I’m in!! Don’t be evil! Wooohooo!!
– oh…we actually don’t say that anymore? but enjoy the fully tax deductable renovated old factory where people made stuff, like, a hundred years ago, so quaint but yet historical? Oh and because you work in the internets now, everything you say will have a question mark at the end of it? but you’re not asking – genius, doesn’t sound condescending at all, and you sound inquisitive. Steve told me that.
It’s “Mr Stevens” to you !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw
These places are nothing more than Workhouses designed to trap the worker and control their social lives by providing ‘activities’ and nights out (which are inside).
Places like this create an institutionalized workforce who don’t engage properly with the area of the city they work in because too many services are provided within the institution. The workers become so narrowly focused on their jobs that they lose years of proper social development and awareness of other life choices and opportunities.
It’s a concept coming under a lot of criticism and there will be a huge backlash against it over the next ten years.
Beanbags and funky canteens don’t make up for respect of the individual in the workplace.
Hear, hear!!
Ola di da