How Google Turned a 90-Year-Old Train Terminal Into Its New $2.1B Office | WSJ Open Office

Correction: This version of the video misstates Google’s square footage in its new office as 100 million instead of 1.3 million. We are in the process of updating this video.

* moves desk sideways * look at how flexible and changeable this office is! 😭

Kinda interesting how the comfort area of engineers are a games lounge with a ping pong table and the comfort area of business professionals are seemingly hotel lobbies

Correction - the building is 1.3 million sq feet, not 100 million! source - google

Working for a company having a yearly net income of more than 70 billion USD must be amazing. They obviously make well-calculated financial decisions, but when they do make a decision they have almost unlimited funds to carry it out. 2 billion or 20 billion - it's just 3 months of savings apart.

If you're curious, 100 million square feet is a square where each side is 3.58 miles (5.76 km). So, this would be roughly 1/10 the size of San Francisco.

0:10 "100 million square feet"?? That can't be right !

"I'm the CWO" "What's a CWO?" "Chief Watering Officer ... I water the 100 million tiny potted plants on the inside and outside of Google HQ"

moves a desk wow! How transformative!

Now i know why they show a couple extra ads every-time i do anything online... someone has to pay for all of this.

I worked in this area for 3 years. Everyone who isn't rolling in 8 figure bank account absolutely HATES it. The square footage prices for commercial rent are through the stratosphere so small mom and pop shops can't go anywhere near this. Independent restauranteurs can't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Even some big names couldnt' open up in the Hudson Yards mall without major backing which most didn't get so food options that another major city would be rife with will never happen in this part of NYC. Small shops for groceries definitely not happening. Any gyms are the kind that cost as much a Mercedes payment. Basically the only options for foot traffic visitors are the mega corporations who can afford to run a location at a loss. So it all creates this "gentrified bubble" that is becoming the hallmark of the west side developments. Eventually those inside the bubble get bored of the options and being walled off from the real world. This is going to become a thing in urban planning.

if everyone works on portable laptops, and can meet a client anywhere in the city, then why is any of this necessary?

Amazing modern day cubicles. Wow so nice!

that's one of the coolest renewal projects making use of a building that was no longer in use, amazing.

When you wanna give these project leads new work, google was like yeah f it let’s do a new office

WFH shows that people want a private office to work in, not a simulation of a coffeeshop. But even with this outlandish amount of floorspace the employees are still bumper to bumper. All the glass and concretes going to make it very reverby and noisy as well.

Giant empty building = "workplace of the future". Got it.

What surprised me is that no one was using Chromebook. Almost all laptops in the video were MacBooks.

So glad to see they spent all that money from laid off employees on an office that no one wants to go to!

Google failed to add jet ski for commuting!