#officespace

How can anyone can view Fujifilm's move from its beautiful Graphics Innovation Hub in Hanover Park to a much smaller office in Schaumburg as positive news?

It’s comical that here in JAB we’re told to come in 4 days a week while the garage is perpetually closed, and lot spots are full.

Meanwhile the bigwig reserved parking spots are totally empty so we disposable grunts must manage to find a spot. All to get our badge swipe

(Pro tip: I found you can park in those reserve spots without repercussion, just like how people make their own creative spot)

I’m curious if anyone here has successfully obtained workplace accommodations related to their neurodivergence, particularly around office seating arrangements or working remotely.

My concern is that our workplace is moving away from traditional cubicles with higher walls and toward more open seating arrangements. Some areas have bench-style desks with virtually no barriers, while others have shorter partitions. Either way, these environments are noticeably louder and have significantly more visual distractions.

For neurodivergent employees, particularly those who struggle with sensory processing, noise, visual stimulation, or maintaining focus, this type of environment can make it considerably more difficult to concentrate and be productive.

I’m wondering if anyone has successfully obtained accommodations such as:

• A workstation with higher partitions or more visual separation.
• A permanent work-from-home accommodation when the office environment creates significant barriers to productivity.

I’d especially appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through the formal ADA accommodation process. What did you request, what documentation was required, and how receptive was your employer?

I’m not necessarily looking to avoid coming into the office. I’m looking for an environment where I can do my best work without unnecessary sensory distractions. I’d love to hear what has worked for others.

Hundreds being hired around the globe, HR suffering burnout due to all the hiring paperwork

Car parks rammed, not enough desks, coffee machines running out due to demand

Everyone wants to work for this growth company, we are heading to the moon - hold on tight !!!

Clean out your lockers.
Clean off your desks for a “clean desk” policy.
Turn in your badge next?

It seems like the Chicago office could be the next to close. Move everything to NY and TX.

Does anyone have insight what they are planning for Oakley Station Pulse Point? If they close it, any advice on how to avoid being forced way up to Mason which is significantly further from Cincinnati?

Our focus is on badge swipes for RTO and building a new campus no one wants because nobody really needs an office anymore. We even sell the service that enables WFH. But don’t worry it’ll be loaded with a bunch of junk that nobody will use because it hasn’t been cool for nearly 25 years. We are always way too late to the game. Starlink isn’t a real threat when you have a multibillion dollar office like this.

Anyone knows how much headcount they are adding? how much space are they adding?

When there is no space to assign, why these leads asking to come to office. App shows all space is booked.

The current refinery building doesnt have space to accomodate all engineers from QP.
Have they already started construction for the new building across the street of the refinery?

Any updates?

Fiserv has agreed to take about 254,000 square feet at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC), with the deal reported this morning, September 24. The company is moving its South Florida offices there from its existing Coral Springs facilities
https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2026/09/24/fiserv-related-ross-new-boca-raton-campus.html

So relocating and actually leasing a larger footprint. Well I guess that means Fiserv is maintaining a long term South Florida operating presence rather than simply liquidate that location.

I enjoy the work and have no problem doing it 40+ hours /week. What is quickly driving me insane is spending hours in traffic every day to do the same job I know I can do the same, if not better, without the drive when all of your work is on a computer. Gas is too expensive and Dearborn/metro Detroit su-ks to commute in. On top of that, shame on Ford for making all of their employees come in 4 days for over a year now without proper seating and planning.

Are there really no spots in cities like Lone Tree, San Fran, etc.? I might accept an offer but they only listed Austin and Southlake as an option...what about Orlando or any other cities? I might not go through with it if TX is the only available option. Has anyone heard of any potential expansion in different cities for next year?

The office in Greenwood Village even operational? Read that was sold out a while ago but learned the lease extended until March 2027. Anyone working in Greenwood location?

Amazon is reportedly ending its lease on an 81,000-square-foot office in South Lake Union. This move is part of the company's ongoing reduction of its physical office space. The tech giant's Seattle workforce has decreased since the pandemic. Amazon has also conducted significant layoffs in recent years. The company is reevaluating its office needs and shifting employees to other locations.

Seattle, Washington

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-plans-to-shed-another-seattle-office-next-year-report-shows/

Looks like the space may be sub leased. Are those of us remaining moving? Where?

Heard through co-workers that anyone that arrives on site and not able to find a desk in their zone will be required to work in the cafeteria. I don’t know about you, but I get my best work done with hundreds of people around me and a single laptop screen instead of dual monitors. Not to mention, I’m not sure the cafe workers have the clearance to be around that type of sensitive client information

Audacy has moved its corporate headquarters to New York City. This relocation marks a significant shift after nearly six decades based in Philadelphia. The company has also subleased half of its Philadelphia office space. This move indicates a strategic change in the company's operational focus. The reasons for this transition are not detailed in the provided text.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2026/04/02/audacy-headquarters-new-york-restructure-layoffs.html

Seeing pictures of the wonderful inauguration of the CommonPiers in Boston everywhere on LinkedIn . Congratulations to everyone on this new way of working full time in a new place! It looks beautiful ..

The FIS building/campus in St Petersburg will be put up for sale in August. No other details or word about the staff. Just that announcement. So much for the Return to Office initiative.

Work in 100 Magellan. This week, some of the common space/collaboration zones disappeared (big tables, couches). Cleared out just enough room on 3W to cram in 8 more desks between existing rows in a frw places. So I guess re-opening 200 to make room isn’t happening.

With so many office buildings sitting half empty, it raises an interesting question:

What if companies sold some of their real estate and embraced a truly virtual workforce?

Many offices already feel sparse, with some departments coming in fewer days than company policy requires. Meanwhile, businesses continue paying for office space, utilities, maintenance, security and other overhead costs.

Could those savings be better invested in employees, technology, innovation, or customer experience instead?

Remote work isn’t the right fit for every role, but for many positions, the traditional office footprint may no longer make financial sense.

TP&E gets assigned offices and, apparently, the refrigerated snacks vanish at the same time.

Honestly, I'd take a dedicated office over free snacks every day of the week, so this isn't really about the snacks. I'm just amused by how often we hear about transparency and then find out about changes after the fact.

I'm also curious how much the snack program was actually costing. It seems hard to believe refrigerated snacks were breaking the budget, especially in a year when the company is likely doing quite well. Maybe there's context I'm missing.

It’s because our so-called leadership are all id1ots and completely out of touch with what the average employee does here. For example, they tout the importance and success of meeting-free fridays. Don’t know about you all, but I’m still having meetings on fridays.

And, their justification for meeting-free Fridays is to wallow employees the ability to “connect with colleagues.” First off, the average employee is too busy to just set aside time to “connect” for the sake of connecting. Second, our colleagues are all spread out at different sites so it’s hard to “connect” on a teams call. Third, none of us have our own desks anymore, we have community seating, so even if we work at the same site, none of us even sit in the same area to “connect.” Forth, good luck finding an open area to “connect” in.

Since leadership wanted to try and cover-up their bad real estate deals and are packing us all in to the brim, there are never any conference rooms or lounges available. The other day, I saw two employees working in a focus room meant for one employee. Yeah, it’s getting that bad! Don’t let “leadership” fool you. They are just a bunch of inept employees who either have a piece of paper stating otherwise, got lucky or knew someone already in that “leadership” circle.

Not sure if others have noticed, but the Frisco executive center is now sharing space with Intuit employees. It’s been noticeably more crowded lately and it doesn’t feel like the same place it was when we first moved in.

Which honestly brings up something I’ve been thinking about for a while — was Frisco even the right call to begin with?

The location is surrounded by toll roads. For a lot of us commuting in every day, there’s really no way around it. Those tolls add up and that cost falls on employees, not the company. That felt like an oversight when we moved in and it still does.

And now we’re sharing the space with an outside company? That wasn’t exactly part of the pitch when this place was built. So it makes you wonder — is this a cash flow issue? Or did the business case for building here just not hold up the way leadership said it would?

Either way, it’s a fair question. The people who made this decision aren’t the ones paying tolls every morning to get there.

By the looks of the Midland office, the mothership is going to be shutting it down soon. No one‘s ever there they’ve closed the whole floor and the other ones are maybe 50% full. It’s only a matter of time before they start leasing out one of the towers. If I were one of the employees there, I would start looking at other competitors that value people close to the wellhead.

The amount of skeletons we are moving with is too much for the old and too cheap to quit the lease tiny quarters. Wait! That will be for the new owners to bear. Sails a Way buckaroos!

The Intuit Atlanta office just listed for rent

https://www.showcase.com/405-n-angier-ave-ne-atlanta-ga-30308/28500221/

is the 5 day RTO expected for the durham office? There's barely any space!

They sent an email re buildings A and B in Chandler. What do you think, will we get a stupid open office design with no cubicles, or a layout that will cram us in further so that we can all come in 5 days/week? Both? I loathe the open office setup, it's so distracting.

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Today I'm sharing the difficult decision that I, along with our leadership team, have made to reduce roles across GBO, Marketing, Engineering and Product. If you are impacted, or proposed to be impacted in EMEA & APAC, by these changes, you will receive a calendar invite to a notification meeting within the next hour. For impacted teams, you'll learn more about your org-specific information from your leaders shortly, and updates will be added to go/CompanyExchange throughout today.

In addition to role reductions, we are scaling back investments in some areas including marketing campaigns, vendor spend, customer events, and underutilized office space, so we can focus teams on priorities that have the broadest impact with the highest ROl. You will receive details about these changes from respective functional leaders.

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For those staying, first and foremost, I would like to invite you to support our impacted colleagues. We will move forward together with focus and clear priorities to reach our potential as the platform that the world's professionals and companies increasingly turn to.

Thank you, again, to our teammates who are departing, and to everyone across LinkedIn who continues to show up and support each other.

Dan

BCC: All Global Employees

I’ve been loving the open-plan HMP setup and how much it’s boosted real collaboration, but I feel like we’re leaving some upside on the table. A lot of the private offices were only supposed to be temporary, yet plenty of people (especially in Subsurface and the old CTC groups) are still camped out in them long-term. It’s starting to feel like the last holdouts keeping us from going full one-team.

If we accelerated the rollout and moved everyone into the open plan, it would be a game changer. No more closed doors creating little silos. Just full visibility, spontaneous conversations, and everyone including our geologists and reservoir engineers ... mixing it up with the rest of the business every day. That kind of constant collaboration would help us move faster, share knowledge better, and really crush the competition.
Management has already shown they’re willing to make bold calls on workspace. Speeding this up and finally transitioning Subsurface out of those temporary offices would send a strong message and unlock even more of the culture and performance gains we’ve been seeing.

Chevrons heading in the right direction. Let’s finish what we started and make the open environment the standard everywhere. Anyone else think it’s time to push harder on this? Especially curious how the field and ops folks see it when you’re in the office. Would getting Subsurface fully into the open plan help with handoffs and alignment, or am I off base?

Has anyone received any reliable information on how long Phase One will last? In the 900 building in Smithfield, it’s a total nightmare. Not enough bathrooms, desks, parking spots, takes 30 minutes to get off campus, etc - and that’s just for 50/50. I realize the upper crust wants huge attrition numbers but some of us have no choice. This toxic environment is about to get worse - amazing.

We’re almost at a year of return to office and I still don’t have a desk. Anyone else?

There has been some chatter around the Blue Ash offices that the goal is to move eveyone downtown?

Is there any truth to this?

I can’t imagine there is enough office space but I could be wrong.

I know that would personally make me feel much better about my Phase 2 colleagues being excused from RTO, while the rest of us are required to be in the office doing the same exact job. Maybe some motivational posters? The kitten dangling from a tree branch that says “hang in there”?

I was in the office and there was a lady repeatedly peeking into all the focus/conferences rooms on my floor. Not sure if she was just a busy body or it was her job. I hope people continue to use those rooms so at least there’s less people in open areas. There’s little to no separation between the cube spaces and it gets loud. Funny how it’s acknowledged that those rooms help people to focus yet there is a horrible open space design everywhere with no effort to make it a better experience.

I know the old Dubin office opened at Polaris but is that place still there? Just wondering. I left the Dublin a couple years before it officially shut down. I've seen posts on this site saying it was going away but never heard if that actually happened.

What gives? Anyone know of a plan to resolve the congestion in the near future?