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Facebook Is Building a 394-Unit Housing Community Near Its Offices
- joonix 13y agoEh, not really. They are "working with" a real estate developer. Sounds like they just made a deal, mostly for the marketing aspect, to promote it as "connected to the Facebook campus." Facebook is not building it, and all but 15 units will be available to the general public, not just FB employees.
- nonchalance 13y agoYou clicked the link -> mission accomplished
- birken 13y agoWhen making short term trips to remote offices within a big company, having nearby corporate housing is awesome. This is probably the main reason Facebook is going to have 15 (not 394) units in this nearby complex. But that wouldn't fit the narrative of the article though, so I'm sure it is whatever the author said.
- Jun8 13y agoHope they learn from the mistakes of earlier similar efforts, e.g. the Pullman District in Chicago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_District http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_District.
- ihsw 13y agoDoggy daycare? Get a human daycare.
- jgalt212 13y agoClickbait aside, the perks are just getting out of hand in the Valley. In the past, NY was seen as a bad place for a tech start up because it was very expensive to outbid the banks for engineering talent. Since 2008, this is less so the case, but I'd still think twice about trying to poach a coder from a Hedge Fund. What had been said for NY, now seems to have good relavence for the Valley. The big shops just pay so much in salary and give so much in perks, it's becoming very hard to recruit talent to the low wage/hi risk jobs that start-ups offer. So where does that leave us? Where's the best place to start a biz these days with most compelling combination of easy access to both talent and funding?
- jcomis 13y ago>Where does that leave us? Seattle, Austin, Denver maybe?