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| The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters in Seattle was designed by the architecture firm NBBJ. |
SEATTLE serves as a test tube because of several converging factors:
There’s a lot of money here to experiment with projects. The work force
is relatively young and open to innovation. And the local culture places
a high value on informality, autonomy and egalitarianism. People will
put in long hours under high pressure if they feel respected, but they
won’t tolerate being treated like Dilberts.
Most office workers in Seattle and elsewhere labor in environments much
less inspiring than Ms. Choe’s. And most employers have much less to
spend to make things pleasant. (Bill and Melinda Gates personally
contributed $350 million of the campus’s $500 million cost.) But staying
competitive requires coming up with the best ideas, and the office
environment can be the incubator for them.
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