The Home Office Vs. the home office
December 7, 2020
In Washington, like everywhere else, a major reevaluation of workspace and quality of life is unfolding.
Imagine building an expansive new corporate campus, then deciding since the onset of COVID-19 to sell it and disperse HQ functions. That’s what REI is doing with its newly completed campus in Bellevue, Washington. The company is instead following a distributed work model for its HQ functions.
Four days after Facebook launched a new college-only online space for students called Facebook Campus, the company completed the purchase of a real one, buying REI’s just-completed campus in the Spring District neighborhood for $390 million. It’s one of several investments the tech giant is making in the region — in fact, it’s right next to three buildings currently being developed by Facebook at the Spring District in blocks 6, 16 and 24.