Apple's Excellence in Design Leads to Employees Smacking Into Glass Walls
Apple’s freshly completed spaceship campus was the final project of Steve Jobs, and its construction came with the exacting demands that he was known for. Jobs wanted Apple’s employees to smoothly move through the headquarters without having to take a minute away from thinking about their work. The execution has reportedly gone so well that engineers are running right into the state-of-the-art glass that shapes the building. Housing around 13,000 employees, Apple Park , as the headquarters is known, is a futuristic feat of engineering that contains the world’s largest piece of curved glass. Apple CEO Tim Cook told 60 Minutes in 2015 “the quality and the size” of the 3,000 sheets of glass that have been used at the headquarters “are above all that has ever been accomplished.” And according to a new report from Bloomberg , the glass is so flawless and unobtrusive that employees keep walking into it. From the piece: Surrounding the Cupertino, California-based building ...