[blog_posts count="3" pagination="true" posts_slide="false"]I have seen a number of interesting discussions debating employee freedom vs the importance of building an office culture through proximity. What bothers me about that is the “vs” part….why not both? The basic assumption of the “vs” argument is […]
This diagram was drawn by Paul Baran and his team at the Rand Corporation in the mid 1960’s. It was used to illustrate the idea of a communications system that would survive in the case of damage from a […]
There are three main kinds of hero myths found in cultures around the world. The first has the hero following something, an animal or light or wisp, and as time goes on, the hero finds themselves in an unfamiliar place. […]
[blog_posts count="1" featured_entry="false" meta="false" pagination="false" posts_slide="false"]The market for brilliant software developers is highly competitive and with Google opening an office in the same city, Ticketmaster needed a look and layout that would attract and retain the employees they wanted.
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The market for brilliant software developers is highly competitive and with Google opening an office in the same city, Ticketmaster needed a look and layout that would attract and retain the employees they wanted.
[blog_posts count="1" featured_entry="false" pagination="false" posts_slide="false"]The market for brilliant software developers is highly competitive and with Google opening an office in the same city, Ticketmaster needed a look and layout that would attract and retain the employees they wanted.
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[blog_posts count="1" cat="2" pagination="false" posts_slide="false"][blog_posts count="1" featured_entry="false" author="1" pagination="false" posts_slide="false"]The market for brilliant software developers is highly competitive and with Google opening an office in the same city, Ticketmaster needed a look and layout that would attract and retain the employees they wanted.
[blog_posts count="4" meta="false" columns="2" grid="true" pagination="false" posts_slide="false"]The market for brilliant software developers is highly competitive and with Google opening an office in the same city, Ticketmaster needed a look and layout that would attract and retain the employees they wanted.
Stormsource is a software company that is best known for Appointment-plus. In the last three years they have gone from 25 employees to 90 and their explosive growth continues. They were housed in 3 different suites of their original office […]
The market share for Budweiser was being hit hard by the rising popularity of micro-brews. Anheuser Busch created an advertising campaign that included bars in airports and stadiums around the country and used a physical brand to sell their product.
MLP is consistently ranked as one of the top 50 residential developers in the country. They manage the entire process from land procurement, to entitlement, to design, to construction, to ownership. They have local architects across the nation in the […]
[blog_posts count="4" meta="false" columns="2" grid="false" pagination="false" posts_slide="false"]The market for brilliant software developers is highly competitive and with Google opening an office in the same city, Ticketmaster needed a look and layout that would attract and retain the employees they wanted.
Stormsource is a software company that is best known for Appointment-plus. In the last three years they have gone from 25 employees to 90 and their explosive growth continues. They were housed in 3 different suites of their original office […]
The market share for Budweiser was being hit hard by the rising popularity of micro-brews. Anheuser Busch created an advertising campaign that included bars in airports and stadiums around the country and used a physical brand to sell their product.
MLP is consistently ranked as one of the top 50 residential developers in the country. They manage the entire process from land procurement, to entitlement, to design, to construction, to ownership. They have local architects across the nation in the […]
[blog_posts count="1" full="true" pagination="false" posts_slide="false"]Your enthusiasm, creativity, and expertise have really helped to deliver an edgy and unique plan and design that we really love. In fact, I do think this design has the potential to be the model for all future Ticketmaster offices” — Paula deHaen, Senior director National Support and Training, Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster is primarily a software company and they were expanding just at the time when Google had announced plans to open a local office, complete with Google chef’s and other benefits. Ticketmaster knew that the best employees would automatically go to Google unless they could offer other benefits which needed to include a “cool place to work”.
We were hired to review the floor plan that had been developed and create a look that would give a first impression of “silicon valley cutting edge”. Our first recommendation was to rearrange the executive row that had been created against the desirable north windows. Research shows that employees are happier with access to daylight and data shows happier employees are more engaged and more profitable. By moving those offices to internal locations, we could provide more employees with more daylight. Research also shows that making the leadership appear more accessible through transparency (glass) office fronts and by distributing their offices throughout the company we can increases the belief that career advancement is available, a key motivator for high potential employees.
The employees at this location are all primarily developers with a “specialist” workstyle requiring intense focus and so we kept the high wall cubes that had been proposed. However we selected a fabric with 16 different colors that we used throughout the space to add interest. More colors creates an environment that is “messier” which is visually associated with creativity. By introducing this quantity of colors we could balance out the “conservative” message that comes with high wall cubes.
Ticketmaster was very pleased with the results of the project – not because it looked cool, but because it got them the employees that they wanted.