Visit To Googleplex - Google Office

The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google, Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, United States, near San Jose. Googleplex is a portmanteau of Google and complex, and a reference to googolplex.

The Googleplex is located between Charleston Road, Amphitheatre Parkway, and Shoreline Boulevard in north Mountain View, California close to the Shoreline Park wetlands. Employees living in San Francisco, the East Bay, or South Bay may take a free wifi-enabled Google shuttle to and from work.

The four core buildings, totaling 47,038 square meters (506,310 ft²), were built for and originally occupied by Silicon Graphics (SGI). The office space and corporate campus is located within a larger 26-acre (110,000 m²) site that contains Charleston Park, a 5-acre (20,000 m²) public park; improved access to Permanente Creek; and public roads that connect the corporate site to Shoreline Park and the Bay Trail.

Architecturally, the Googleplex is like a giant playground, not too far off the IKEA crèche.

Conference/Huddle Area

Open Cubicles

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Inside The New Adidas HQ In Germany

Designers of the German architectural studio Kinzo completed work on the design of the new headquarters of the brand Adidas, based in Hertsogenaurahe, Germany. The 1,700 staff members moved into an amazing new work space that features intertwining glass walkways made to mimic the laces of a sneaker. Berlin design company Kinzo set out to create something that would reflect adidas inside and out.

The “Teamplayer” space is at the heart of the new design, supporting desktops, storage and creating a multifunctional room that looks like it’s zoned into honeycombs. In other words, the Kinzo design team have created a space within a space. It lets separate teams have a specific section, but not be completely cut off from the other groups working inside the “Teamplayer.”

The entire furniture system is designed specifically to meet the needs of the team, and work together as a system, rather than functioning as just individual pieces. German furniture specialist Planmöbel partnered with Kinzo to create environmentally friendly, functional furniture sealed with a monolithic surface and a powder-coated finish.

Super conducive environment. No reason for lack of productivity.

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Evolution Of Office Workplace

Sadly, I have to confirm that it is true...

Source from C-Section Comic

Caught Sleeping At Work

A lack of sleep is like being drunk on the job, which is probably more detrimental to your productivity than actually taking a quick nap break during your work hours.

If you got caught, just say... "...I wasn't sleeping, I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm..."

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Cool Team Building Activity

When the tension between department is too high and can't be control anymore, sooner or later it will spark retaliation. Who said you need to camping in the middle of jungle and doing stupid physical activity for your Team Building Activity? You have the whole stretch of your office for that.

Quite possibly the most epic cubicle battle in human history. LOL...