Why Remote Work Might Not Revolutionize Where We Work : Planet Money : NPR
Apple’s massive” spaceship” campus designed to centralize work and foster collaboration in 2017 may have to make way for satellite offices and other remote work.
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Apple’s massive” spaceship” campus designed to centralize work and foster collaboration in 2017 may have to make way for satellite offices and other remote work.
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It was only a few years ago that Apple finished construction of its 2.8 million-square-foot “spaceship” headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. The glittering, doughnut-shaped building cost the company about $5 billion to construct, making it one the most expensive buildings in the world. It was all part of Steve Jobs’ vision of a highly centralized company, where Apple employees collaborate under one roof in the place the company was founded. And now — record scratch — Apple seems to be abandoning that vision.
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