Apple pushes Campus 2 completion into 2017, possibly changing move-in plans
Construction work on Apple's new Cupertino headquarters, Campus 2, now won't be finished until the beginning of 2017, according to the city's latest weekly update on the project.
Street and building work was originally meant to be wrapped up in the third quarter, leaving construction nearly a month overdue. The Cupertino government also remarked that landscaping and site work, which only started in Q3, won't be done until at least the second quarter of next year.
It's unclear if the delay -- not the first for the project -- will impact Apple's plans to move in. CEO Tim Cook previously told his workforce that they would begin moving in by the end of January, but now that could mean employees setting up weeks or even days after construction crews have cleared, if Apple isn't forced to delay the move-in outright.
Campus 2 was designed with input from late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, and has been a major endeavor. The site is eventually expected to house over 13,000 workers in a unique ring-shaped structure. Most of the complex's power will come from on-site solar and fuel cells, and some other features will include the likes of a 1,000-seat theater and a 100,000-square-foot fitness center.
A recent report indicated that Apple's current headquarters, located at 1 Infinite Loop, will fill up with people from the company's various cloud teams, including Siri, iCloud, Apple Music, iTunes, and more. The same report suggested that Campus 2's population could grow much higher than the 13,000 figure.
Street and building work was originally meant to be wrapped up in the third quarter, leaving construction nearly a month overdue. The Cupertino government also remarked that landscaping and site work, which only started in Q3, won't be done until at least the second quarter of next year.
It's unclear if the delay -- not the first for the project -- will impact Apple's plans to move in. CEO Tim Cook previously told his workforce that they would begin moving in by the end of January, but now that could mean employees setting up weeks or even days after construction crews have cleared, if Apple isn't forced to delay the move-in outright.
Campus 2 was designed with input from late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, and has been a major endeavor. The site is eventually expected to house over 13,000 workers in a unique ring-shaped structure. Most of the complex's power will come from on-site solar and fuel cells, and some other features will include the likes of a 1,000-seat theater and a 100,000-square-foot fitness center.
A recent report indicated that Apple's current headquarters, located at 1 Infinite Loop, will fill up with people from the company's various cloud teams, including Siri, iCloud, Apple Music, iTunes, and more. The same report suggested that Campus 2's population could grow much higher than the 13,000 figure.
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Construction would have been a distraction for Jobs had he still be around, because he would have obsessed over every detail and forced changes. But I bet that Cook is not really involved very much, except in terms of overall budgets and dates. And certainly the development and marketing teams aren't distracted by this, because it really has nothing to do with them until they have to move. Internal IT and HR teams are probably very involved.
Can't wait to visit Cupertino and see this marvel in person.
Spending money on an HQ where Apple is going operate and live in for the next several decades is a "waste"? Maybe they should just stop now and demolish it? BTW, this was Steve's concept, not Cook's, so we can conclude that you therefore believe he was a terrible leader unfit for the job too.
Words cannot express how grotesquely clueless you are about literally and absolutely everything. I stated that you have the attention span and cognitive abilities of a 3 yr old towards a previous post from you, and as everyone here can see, you solidify that with every single post you make. There's so much stupidity there, from the fact that you put this on Cook, to the fact that you call it "wasting money on a UFO". to the fact that you believe this HQ is being built "instead" of products. Most rational people see this building as an inspiration, an incredible impressive feat, and something that will benefit Apple and its employees for decades. You see it as a useless failure, because you see everything as a projection of yourself.
How you can be so utterly disconnected from anything approaching reality is, frankly, terrifying.
Many CEOs do not share that point of view. Employees should always be at least a little bit afraid they'll lose their job in order to keep them on their toes and ensure they remain focused on the company's bottom line. Andy Grove famously insisted that only "the paranoid survive". Working for an employer that pays well should result in an exchange in which the employer receives more value for their money than they spend. Despite the "perks" that Silicon Valley companies have become famous for, these things only continue because they are rolling in cash and there is a tight labor market for talented people.
It just never really looked like they were going to make the December date.
Oh well, it'll have been worth the wait, whenever they get there.
there may or may not be a small advantage to the short-term view of leading through fear...
At the end of the day, treating people decently is simply right.
And we don't have any information as to why there is a delay. Maybe something they built isn't going to work out as planned, maybe they had a better idea, or a vendor was delayed causing a minor part of the construciton to be behind. For instance, the German company manufacturing the glass panels may be behind, or maybe something happened during shipping, or maybe once it arrived onsite.
I will be surprised if everyone has moved into the Campus 2 by the end of 2017 considering the logistics involved for only furniture and office supplies, but not surprised if they announce one or more teams onsite.
Does the update specifically refer to the spaceship, or does the project refer to all other building near it, many of which started well after the area main building?