LinkedIn's gorgeous San Francisco offices are unlike anything we've ever seen

Business Insider was recently invited to check out LinkedIn's gorgeous new office building in downtown San Francisco. The building has been open for just over a year and is decked out with an open office floor plan, interactive art installations, a gourmet cafeteria (where employees eat for free), rooftop deck, and an impressive gym. With all of those perks, it's no wonder why employees have ranked LinkedIn as one of the best companies to work for in 2017.
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[@RmcOfficialChannel]

u can apply via linkedin?

[@AC-qo8oq]

I work for a software company and we have the same perks. Free food, gym, bar, with every alcohol imaginable, massage room, open concept, cool art on the walls, “flex hours,” “unlimited PTO,” it’s so you don’t leave and keep working.

[@billbull4924]

It's actually in par with the Norways prisons

[@HxWilliams]

Lmao

[@MelvinJ64]

Where in this "office" do they actually,you know...work?

[@hailahong3021]

Oba O wherever you want to, i think :))

[@yinyiwang]

Oba O they don’t . Just chill

[@dawnbugXXX]

0:24 those look like cubicles

[@enelbarro1365]

They actually overwork, this is all a gimmick so you dont realize you are wasting your life inside the office

[@ImStuckInStockton]

LinkedIn

[@Superbates123]

Nice to see workspaces that offer more privacy than open rows of benching systems found in so many firms today.

[@caddyshack68]

Mean while at my local insurance office we have 7x5 foot break room with a 10 year old fridge

[@bekjanz]

I can see how in future we will be living in unbelievably tall skyscrapers, with everything in it, work, entertainment, places of believe, parks basically what u do in ur life on daily basis in one tall ass building, and its not like a building u think of now, it will be massive levels on top of levels cities growing up

[@sakunisawuni777]

k

[@peterbrush6374]

Reminds me of courscant from Star Wars lol

[@bekjanz]

Peter Brush yup something like that

[@32SanX]

No thank you, I don't want to live like an ant.

[@bekjanz]

32SanX well u r living like an ant right now in some sense, I don't really understood u, I mean if there will be someone as much larger to us as humans are to ants then u are pretty much living like an ant to them in ur colonies or so called cities and towns u know what I mean?

[@wandiletembe]

My God. Mondays would never be the same again. 😎 Would go to work every day of the week. 😅 I would pay to go too work

[@wandiletembe]

@StraPSnOut PiDdLeGout you talking from experience? 🤔

[@SSToor]

Yeah, work on your own, for the same efdort you can earn a lot more and eat as much as you like

[@DavidPat]

I work from home and I have the best office because I get to play with my baby boy. 😁 But I am glad that this is not a soulless corporate box.

[@Nothinghere-p3e]

Are you jealous

[@abhisheksingh1358]

@@Nothinghere-p3e 💯🤣😂

[@eterr9000]

So where the actual work happens?

[@the.abhiram.r]

now if they could fix their mobile app

[@nomorefools]

My company's founder was a LinkedIn's employee in the past. He said that LinkedIn is one of the best role model of successful startup. It must be great to work there.

[@rajan4915]

What a myriads of aesthetic sense and sensibility of LinkedIn employee culture is terrible amazing and awesome in terms of oversee the insightful things at various aspect . pretty sound good

[@shmoit.v6853]

They do this so you will never leave muhahhahahahhahhaa

[@darellarocho5729]

I mean, obviously it has business value in it, but I don't see why it'd be a bad thing.

[@vjeminem]

Yeah why leave....

[@grapefives7762]

@@darellarocho5729 lmao cause you wont actually live a life outside the office

[@darellarocho5729]

@@grapefives7762 Yeah, true. I getcha

[@facundomiranda3391]

If i would work in a place like that, why the hell would i want to go to my house? free food and gym....

[@vp2083]

Now please look at their employees working hours. I know someone who worked for google and they had similar condition. Why? Because they did 14 hours of programming a day so they needed something to keep them saint

[@sanansa4567]

thats what they want. Burn people out and just keep bringing in people in their 20s to work extremely long hours, thinking they are going to eventually make it to a higher position and not have to work 14 hours day. Welcome to corporate America.

[@lnishantw]

I don't know where you get that from. 14 hours is insanely unrealistic even during the release of a product.

[@vp2083]

Jasmine Chen he frequently worked long hours on some projects. If you want to go recent in the news have a look at rockstars news. They made their programmers work extreme hours to complete the new rd2 now I know they are a game company but the point remains the same.

[@TheCoffeeNut711]

But the promos have them smiling and laughing and everything is perfect!!! Are you saying that is a lie?

[@vp2083]

@@TheCoffeeNut711 it's like the financial commercials all over

[@Rhyme905]

My job only has a water fountain outside the bathroom :(

[@johnsonlive9173]

At least u have that some people don't have bathroom

[@SSToor]

@@johnsonlive9173 wtf lol

[@florencenyandiko3136]

That's a start

[@sisir37]

@@SSToor 3rd world problems deer

[@arjunsingh29041990]

When do employees work??

[@jkho8365]

Don't you know? office hours are Saturday and Sunday

[@bckstrm1897]

0:25 here i guess

[@keyqchan]

I wonder if the employees actually could get higher salary if the company doesn't provide all those perks.

[@Sanpedranoazul]

You never leave your job

[@pdeon1930]

Hello

[@Prateekyadav73]

All of them are HR 😂

[@ilipan2668]

Essentially zero upward mobility at any of these companies, especially as a software engineer. They want young talent rather than the experienced.

[@yak2425]

Ilipan , they do have to pay less to young employees...and most likely fire them once they get older...

[@l.1244]

Why would the hire young talent and then not promote them thus occupying places that could be given to other young workers?

[@frizzzzzzal]

bass player is holding the instrument upside down.

[@riacastixo]

Because he's left handed.

[@Zenbooth]

What an amazing office!! :D We love it!

[@darellarocho5729]

You work there?

[@AjayKumar-fd9mv]

I wish my office was like this 😢

[@TheYavy]

Google sees this; HOLD MAH BEER!!

[@davidsihombing15]

What a beautiful office to work

[@aguafria9565]

Open offices. Clearly you aren't following research that dictates how unproductive they are.

[@hailahong3021]

Aguafria all the big companies have open office and they invest in R&D much more money than some researches on newspapers, so i think they know what they’re doing.

[@Person-zt5nq]

@@hailahong3021 They partly do it to save money because it's less sqft per employee, so it's easy to rationalize (to make up other reasons post hoc). For some individuals and teams it's not that distracting, and it can encourage interactions. And some people work remotely more than 50% anyway. However, this varies by individual and by team; for some people it is *very* distracting. So it just becomes an arbitrary filter (no different than hiring people based on race, gender, political affiliation, favorite sports team, etc). Ideally they should give individuals and teams options to customize their work space instead of providing a one-size fits all "solution" and banning modifications.

[@hailahong3021]

internet person they have private sections too. What are you talking about? Plus, if they want to save money that much, just build it higher.

[@CC-si3cr]

open office space would never work for me. I need walls and a door. I am easily distracted + I need silence when working.

[@sadtoy1193]

Very cool environment for employees, I'm genuinely jealous. What about their work though? What do most employees do in LinkedIn?

[@rafibangladesh]

I wonder too

[@sxhuxhu61]

There would be some departments that would work on IT management which is setting up servers, cyber security which protect against cyberattacks. Some other departments could also be made up of programmers but it Varys. You can search up office departments to see much more.

[@amosicronery7730]

Amazing working place

[@captaingnarful]

sending application now

[@darellarocho5729]

How did it go?

[@jackrassel5852]

@@darellarocho5729 they killed him.rip

[@darellarocho5729]

@@jackrassel5852 Lmfao, damn a year after

[@Manishdna]

Wow! This is impressive!

[@ZuneraHashmi]

So good to be true, imagining to be working there.

[@crystalyeowchingching1036]

Cool, must be happy working here.

[@SilverShrimpTX]

Linkedin, OFFER ME a position! I'll be there in a week!

[@Kirankumar-lb6nh]

What kind of offer how to get it.?

[@narendrayadavkkc]

watchman

[@Person-zt5nq]

I OFFER YOU

[@mat2941]

1:18 I would want to work there just for that alone

[@kowshikkumar9868]

With all these facilities how will they get intrest to work. I hope LinkedIn employee don't want linkedin application anymore

[@cardorichard4148]

kowshik kumar that’s why they hire very smart people who have no motivational problem.

[@pineapplelord2422]

i need to work there

[@damob9138]

What computers and operating systems do companies with big offices use ?

[@dwh19891218]

Don’t trick me into applying

[@amaralabbas3048]

I applied for this job through LinkedIn

[@NecromancerTO]

Great jam!

[@deeboy1957]

No wonder LinkedIn subscription so damn expensive

[@edum.6353]

linkedin got me on the free food offer

[@legoguy23451]

hard day of work, eh?

[@CumBrianFries]

Nice office, I bet the employees have the productivity of a koala or a sloth. Which is to be expected considering how shitty their mobile app is.

[@chetnakikan3721]

Fantastic...

[@baysidegreg]

Simply wow

[@tetsuya7529]

I wanna work there

[@LetsBeHuman]

Is the public space open 24 x 7?

[@Person-zt5nq]

yes homeless people live there

[@7saany]

All of a sudden I want to work here, No, actually, I'd want to LIVE HERE

[@daveycrocker4466]

Now do one of Apples assembling plant in china.

[@vaishbe3212]

Damn... It's like a weekend getaway trip... Just the weekend will never be over!

[@s0rdfish]

Good work place

[@tanishshah4643]

Applying for a job at LinkedIn through LinkedIn

[@giteshmusale8180]

Meanwhile we're too busy 'updating' our profile

[@mastercolling]

The first job when you get into the company is to add LinkedIn on LinkedIn!

[@CC-si3cr]

I'm surprised I didn't see a laundry room and pet sitting service like at Google's campus. I would love to know how much the company spends on feeding their staff along with keeping all 9 micro-kitchens fully stocked. LinkedIn seems like a modern day Shangri-La. Can you imagine if you worked there and got fired? Your next job would suck!

[@bboySilver111]

nice. but where is the office?

[@TheRambo58]

How did the clip of a guy playing the bass upside down slide through?

[@komalparvez7632]

When do they work

[@tejaswaroopreddyseelam4750]

When will they work?

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

Became a Pirate then

[@prasadv4310]

Lovely place

[@gyuva1]

The office is full of stuff ready for an employee to work 14 hours a day

[@mh_nk7]

I guess you can say they LinkedIn to their new building

[@mfarrukhiqbal1]

I am wondering what more big IT companies are going to do in the future to stop employees from thinking about their own ventures.

[@hapahapa4289]

mfarrukhiqbal1 it’s actually good employees make their own ventures because the big IT company will just buy it and become stronger 😂

[@mfarrukhiqbal1]

@@hapahapa4289 talking about majority of good employees besides the star performers. 😀 Cheers

[@hellohello2711]

Yeah nice but when do they actually work??? After seeing this im shorting the hell out of their stock

[@leighd6409]

God damn!!! Where do I apply ?

[@goldenknight]

I still don't know what linkedIn is doing lmao

[@simplyfrancois]

Not a single desk or actual computer! Amazing! So all the work is actually outsourced elsewhere? :-)

[@pektowanderlust]

Tale of two cities... meanwhile, homelessness in San Francisco is rampant.

[@mesunekonyan]

Wow i wanna work there looks like all they do is eat and sit in a comfy chairs.

[@NatalieKKim]

This is my dream

[@sweetazn208]

Damn makes me feel like a 2nd class citizen lol

[@teymournoahhishamahmedyous8175]

Where can I apply for a job???

[@reMARKably_me]

perhaps the newgen workers are asking too much. 20yrs ago the productivity was more or less the same - minus free lunch, gym and jamming studio.

[@mahmoudm.3458]

I hate my boss ^^

[@darellarocho5729]

Do you work at LinkedIn?

[@gokusaiyan6809]

The salaries in develop countries should be enough to motivate people.

[@benjaminw.1471]

this just looks like every other tech company office

[@lharmy]

Why is that bass guitar upside down??

[@alishalchi1260]

He's a lefty

[@serhat1]

LinkedIn ads is a scam.

[@user-jg6xu1kk1i]

Employees should pay the company to work there

[@alishalchi1260]

Wtf are you saying. How can someone pay to work?

[@rbnrai4]

Most of the American companies give all the finest facilities to their native people. Out of America it's nothing like they show to the world. Yes I'm talking about double standard behaviour which is with every American companies.

[@iguicc]

Duh, if a USA based company has better facilities outside of the USA than in it, that would be stupid.

[@NotFound-iu8wx]

I wish ours was as good by an Amazonian

[@mrevanoc]

Nightmare for HR Dept.

[@iamgroot8954]

So hip for the modern millennial and zoomers. What they don't tell you is that these accommodations are put in place because you will be there 10 - 12 hours per day. Enjoy your new home. LOL Oh. You can work from home on occasions, like the weekends. LOL

[@raisingbarssince1978]

So great..never leave the office again!!! ...while people sleep on the streets just around the corner

[@tecko3299]

I see more food and enjoy time than work

[@houchi69]

Let's see when they rank high on the Fortune's Best Place to Work list first.

[@9901mar]

what is linknd in

[@Atipat12]

Awesome

[@nealg3546]

Does anyone ever accept an invitation to visit or just delete?

[@DarylNorthrop]

what is linkedin for again?

[@AkshayAradhya]

Spamming other people

[@daisyjernigan2565]

how many ppl found jobs on this site

[@djcb4190]

Bizarre idea to pin good fortunes.

[@iamchillydogg]

I hear they have a machine that cleans your shoes of all the shit they step in on the way to work.

[@valkyrie273]

This is the comment I was looking for.

[@777violett]

It looks more like they’re socializing rather than working lol. What sort of qualifications do you need to work there?...

[@Courtney1992]

So why can’t schools be like this.

[@nsj3000]

Anything funded by the government is always the bare minimum

[@tatianakoval7066]

when they do their job? if there are so many pleaces to visit.. to eat.. to lift out in gym..:)))...

[@movocode]

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