Inside The Monumental Offices Of Tech Giants

Inside The Monumental Offices Of Tech Giants
Facebook employees walk past the arcade room at the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif., Friday, March 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Facebook employees walk past the arcade room at the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif., Friday, March 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Big Internet companies love to talk about how they are “disrupting” one thing or another, but they still want what big companies have always wanted: workplaces that memorialize their products and values.

That is a challenge, because software is invisible and change is high technology’s most valued commodity. Insubstantial as a cubicle seems, in the tech industry it has given way to the long tables and broad whiteboards of open-plan offices, where everyone taps into a common Wi-Fi signal. Office teams grow or shrink in these open rooms, moving work and information as quickly as possible.

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