A “postures matrix” shaped how LinkedIn's new headquarters handles hyb – Fast Company

By Nate Berg3 minute ReadThe era of hybrid work came at an awkward time for LinkedIn. The professional networking company was deep in the midst of a design for its new headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, when the pandemic upended almost everything about how the company envisioned its new offices.“Prior to the pandemic, the equation was how many people can we fit?” says Lisa Britz, LinkedIn’s director of workplace design. For LinkedIn and many companies like it, the pandemic led to a rapid pivot to working from home, bringing the idea of set and conventional workplaces into question. Designing an office for more than 1,000 workers who may be often or even always working remotely changed the parameters shaping the new building, Britz says. “It’s much more complex than a one-to-one equation of hiring somebody and adding more space.”[Photo: NBBJ/Eric Laignel]Working with the architecture firm NBBJ, LinkedIn paused its office redesign, which had been set to open in April 2020, to take these changes into account. But only so much of the project could be stopped. The structure and exterior shell of the building had already been finalized and construction was nearly complete. So the designers turned to the interiors.“The base issue was…
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