One innovation everyone is talking about is Microsoft’s new office spaces. A new type of work environment has been built for employees high up in the trees. These treehouses provide outdoor meetings spaces that are designed for employee collaboration in a space where nature has an impact on creativity and happiness.
Some ideas important to Amazon
More than 40,000 of Amazon’s employees live in Seattle itself and they love living in the heart of the city where many of them can walk to work. Over 50% of the employees walk, bike or ride public transport to get to work rather than using cars. Amazon buys transit passes for employees and some buildings include lockers, showers, places to store bikes and other facilities.
Currently, Amazon buildings each have their own design, creating environmentally friendly workspaces. There are open areas that encourage spontaneous meetings, whiteboards in the elevators and workspaces that inspire innovation or collaboration. It’s highly likely that their future headquarters will feature much more of the same.
Amazon’s version of Microsoft’s treehouses!
Walk down Seventh Avenue in Seattle and you won’t be able to miss three huge spheres. These tall orbs are called ‘biospheres’ by Amazon and they will host species of plants from around the world. Employees will be able to walk along suspension bridges filled with greenery and have meetings in spaces that look like birds’ nests perched in the trees. Many of the plants in the biospheres are endangered species.
