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The office is dead: Upscale lounge to lure workers back to SF tech office closes

2 pointsby randycupertinoover 1 year ago

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randycupertinoover 1 year ago
&gt; The lounge in the company’s remodeled 16th-floor downtown office offered a space for workers to sip a Moscow mule or a draft beer while they worked away on their laptops. Barrett’s signature drink, the old-fashioned, came with a branded “E” ice cube.<p>&gt; “It’s more like a social club mixed with a space where you can be super productive,” Expensify’s head of public relations James Dean told the Chronicle in April.<p>&gt; Despite these efforts to create an attractive work environment, the experiment showed that most employees prefer not to make the commute to 88 Kearny St.<p>&gt; “In practice, the lounge was a place that people would generally visit, marvel at, work for a bit, and leave,” he said.<p>This tracks. No amount of kooky architecture or free incentives (other than a bomb cafeteria with fresh free salads) will make me want to commute an extra day per week especially to 88 Kearny which is like the nexus of the universe in SF.