Google, needing its engineers to keep coming up with brilliant ideas, so Google created a work environment like the Big Brother House.
The search giant’s London headquarters covers three floors but last week some of its 350 staff began using a revamped engineering floor that has to be one of the trendiest in the design world.
Meeting rooms feature strange angular sofas, the corridors look like the inside of the starship Enterprise and the workers can play pool and video games during their breaks.
Google’s vice-president of engineering, Nelson Mattos, said: “We hire the brightest and best engineers in the UK and put them together in a highly creative, relaxed and exciting environment.”
When GoogIe set about creating it, they started with a blank canvas. All the walls were
knocked through and the furniture taken away.
A unique look was developed to keep the employees at the top of their game.
There’s never a shortage of space to write ideas down – some walls in the corridors are
made up of huge white boards.
Plenty of food and liquid refreshments are on offer. A”coffee lab” serves 19 different blends and there’s four free restaurants, including a tapas and sushi bar.
Paying is never a distraction either, because it’s all free. There’s also a gym, soundproofed music room with drums and guitars and a games room with a pool table, video consoles and giant 1V.
The office even features its own version of the Big Brother garden with deck chairs, carpet that resembles grass and a rowing boat.
“Contrary to accepted wisdom, fun offices don’t hurt. Our experience is that a comfortable, open and fun environment encourages creativity and openness,” Matto said.
“Open spaces make chance interactions more likely, arid chance interactions often lead to the greatest ideas.
“Many of our products came from unrelated teams finding out about each other’s work and physically meeting to discuss fresh approaches.” – source MX News -
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