Now, you’ll find smatterings of standing desks in many offices trying to attract millennial talent. The rooftop garden is the new water cooler, at least for some offices.Īnd speaking of desks, Allegro said that when they were working on the Spotify space, it was one of the largest installations of standing desks in the city at the time. Instead of sitting at your desk most of the day, and walking down a long hallway to a conference room or another office to talk to a coworker, the office design encourages chance encounters, which could lead to collaborations or creative conversations between coworkers. Or in any of the open areas with lounge chairs, near the string walls. That’s by design.Īllegro said that people are meant to have chance encounters with coworkers at the cafe that’s streaming natural light. ) The space takes up 63,000 square feet and is really more of a campus than an office. (Spotify expanded to more office space in 4 World Trade Center in 2017. This Spotify office is at 620 Avenue of the Americas, which Allegro said was the old AOL headquarters. The Spotify office, which borrows design elements from the company’s Stockholm headquarters but is largely unique, also has a Spiderman lounge, which features a graphic of the comic book hero a library where employees meet after hours for book club and a Wi-Fi-connected rooftop garden. “The right perks and social stimulation is the key,” said Allegro, principal at FOX Architects.

Moutsos and her colleague, Jim Allegro, knew that one major way to attract talent is in office design. And as such, it has to compete for talent that might also be looking for jobs at Google or Uber.Īll photos courtesy of John Gallin & Son, Inc. Moutsos was the design director at FOX Architects, the firm that designed the office back in 2013. The aim is to create separate work spaces and compliment the open floor plan in this office without closing off too many spaces. They’re floor-to-ceiling frames filled with a web of colored strings, instead of plaster and paint. Marie Moutsos’s favorite feature of the Spotify’s NYC HQ office are the string walls.

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