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They don't need to build brand new office buildings from the ground up. They can renovate existing spaces, lease new space and renovate. That could be done in 6
by imgabe 6y ago
They don't need to build brand new office buildings from the ground up. They can renovate existing spaces, lease new space and renovate. That could be done in 6 months, tops, if they really wanted to.
- summerlight 6y agoAFAIK, it's what they're already doing; Google is one of the largest real estate purchaser in the bay area, consistently spending billions of dollars each year on office spaces. The problem is their growth of workforce has been consistently outpacing their real estate expansion. Probably Google can simply slowdown their speed of hiring, but this might be a deal breaker; office space already has been a major constraint for many team's headcount pre-COVID.
- novok 6y agoA lot of office space has just opened up because of covid, it's a great opportunity to snatch it up.
- jjav 6y ago> They don't need to build brand new office buildings from the ground up. Some (many? most?) of those buildings were private offices back in the day anyway, so definitely no new buildings needed.