The article states there is going to be a visitor center
I don't think that's for people to just drop in -- I think that's for visitors with professional business and pre-defined appointments with Apple people.
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Originally Posted by WelshDog
It looks wonderful. I hope all those amenities can compensate for the mental strain of working in a giant corporate environment.
I think noise is going to be a really big issue if it's really designed like the stores, as the article states. The noise level in the big stores (like the Lincoln Center store in NYC) is really high because of all the hard surfaces. You need something to absorb sound aside from the human bodies. As beautiful as it is, it's going to be a nightmare if they don't do something about the sound. You can't have concrete floors, granite walls and metal ceilings and have a decent environment.
In the Lincoln Center store, a computer sound system in the basement sounded like a live band from the top level. It's so loud in there that when the first iPhone with Siri was introduced, I couldn't get it to work there from all the noise.
As beautiful as it is, it's going to be a nightmare if they don't do something about the sound. You can't have concrete floors, granite walls and metal ceilings and have a decent environment.
One very effective way to absorb sound is to use perforated sheets backed by deadening material. The ceilings could utilize perforated metal and still achieve the desired look whilst controlling sound.
We all work in a giant environment. The company is called 'life' and we just work for small individually named departments within it.
I don't think it should cause any exceptional strain working for a 'giant corporation'. You work in your own particular subset of it just like you exist in your own particular subset of humanity. Social mobility in life is mirrored in employment mobility within the corporation. Do employees of governments feel exceptionally strained or do they just see their boundaries within their own department or physical location and not think much outside it?
You make good points, but either way I prefer working for small companies. I worked for Apple this year - at home - and could not handle it. Too much watching me, too much measuring my performance, too many metrics, just too much. I do not in any way envy those who work for big companies.
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The article states there is going to be a visitor center
I don't think that's for people to just drop in -- I think that's for visitors with professional business and pre-defined appointments with Apple people.
It looks wonderful. I hope all those amenities can compensate for the mental strain of working in a giant corporate environment.
I think noise is going to be a really big issue if it's really designed like the stores, as the article states. The noise level in the big stores (like the Lincoln Center store in NYC) is really high because of all the hard surfaces. You need something to absorb sound aside from the human bodies. As beautiful as it is, it's going to be a nightmare if they don't do something about the sound. You can't have concrete floors, granite walls and metal ceilings and have a decent environment.
In the Lincoln Center store, a computer sound system in the basement sounded like a live band from the top level. It's so loud in there that when the first iPhone with Siri was introduced, I couldn't get it to work there from all the noise.
Originally Posted by zoetmb
As beautiful as it is, it's going to be a nightmare if they don't do something about the sound. You can't have concrete floors, granite walls and metal ceilings and have a decent environment.
One very effective way to absorb sound is to use perforated sheets backed by deadening material. The ceilings could utilize perforated metal and still achieve the desired look whilst controlling sound.
We all work in a giant environment. The company is called 'life' and we just work for small individually named departments within it.
I don't think it should cause any exceptional strain working for a 'giant corporation'. You work in your own particular subset of it just like you exist in your own particular subset of humanity. Social mobility in life is mirrored in employment mobility within the corporation. Do employees of governments feel exceptionally strained or do they just see their boundaries within their own department or physical location and not think much outside it?
You make good points, but either way I prefer working for small companies. I worked for Apple this year - at home - and could not handle it. Too much watching me, too much measuring my performance, too many metrics, just too much. I do not in any way envy those who work for big companies.
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