Don't fall for it. “people familiar with the incidents” is just too easy. Not saying the building doesn't have issue. Any building will have ones, even Frank Lloyd Wright's. But there is narrative to sell and that narrative is Apple is failing.
Exactly. We'll be seeing reports soon where one person has complained about the quality of the toilet paper in the new building. APPL will fall by $10 on the news.
Mountains out of molehills perhaps?
APPL will fall and makers of thick toilet paper with 1% margins and zero differentiation and moat will get a PE of 20, that's the world we live in.
Why not just make the bottom 2 or 3 feet of the walls frosted glass, designed in some way so that the "frosting" effect just "fades into nothing" as it goes up the wall? Sure, they might have to figure out some new glass-manufacturing technique, but it's not like Steve J. didn't do that to get massive glass panels for his oh-so-perfect cube Apple Stores. As a bonus, the same technique could have been used on the iPhone back, which would look cool, as well as provide a "grippy surface", which might be a complaint about the iPhone.
And the thing about employees hating open workspaces. I wonder if there's an OSHA complaint coming on that..
Why not just make the bottom 2 or 3 feet of the walls frosted glass, designed in some way so that the "frosting" effect just "fades into nothing" as it goes up the wall?
They'll become "frosted" with blood soon enough, as people continue to walk into them, and the problem will cease.
The argument can only be applied to pro products. Since Apple doesn’t really make many of those anymore, people get antsy when you say it as a generality.
Who here didn't anticipate lots of practicality issues would crop up with this building? We already had an article discussing how many people hate working in open floor plans...
The work space in the picture above looks pretty nice. My company squeezes 4 times as many cubicles into the same area.
Maybe people should just watch where they're going...
Not as simple.
At my old office they had taken down the glass door for some repair work for a week, and then one day they put it back after the repair work. I came running through .... needless to say it went back to repair for another week
The Apple staff often find themselves glued to the iPhones they have meticulously crafted, so it's not surprising that there have been numerous instances of employees inadvertently colliding with the transparent glass panels. Some employees came up with the idea of affixing sticky notes to the glass surfaces to mark their presence. However, these notes were quickly removed as they detracted from the overall design of the building. Consequently, some employees brainstormed alternative methods to distinguish these glass panels.
Glass windows and doors are a modern and practical solution. With such doors, the area of the room seems larger than it really is. The room acquires personality. This is a good option for a small office. Also, glass doors allow you to monitor the entire room at the same time.
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At my old office they had taken down the glass door for some repair work for a week, and then one day they put it back after the repair work. I came running through .... needless to say it went back to repair for another week