<story><title>Rethinking office space</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/rethinking-office-space.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hga</author><text>I think I should point out that this is traditionally a sign of a peak of a company, sometimes called the Edifice Complex.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>It does seem not unusual that, at their peak, technology companies embark on a project that will eventually be their tomb. However, closer inspection reveals that this is really just survivor bias, as many companies continue on post tomb building. Apple built the Infinite Loop campus, Sun built its Menlo Park campus but really didn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;die&amp;quot; until after the Agnews complex was being built.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly for me, they are getting bigger and bigger. The space ship complex for Apple (and this proposed Google setup) are both quite large. So harder to lease out as a unit to the next company that comes along.&lt;p&gt;Still, if you have the extra cash laying about companies like IBM have proven that investing in real estate is a good hedge against the future. They have several really beautiful campuses.</text></comment>
<story><title>Rethinking office space</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/rethinking-office-space.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hga</author><text>I think I should point out that this is traditionally a sign of a peak of a company, sometimes called the Edifice Complex.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbrzusto</author><text>it&amp;#x27;s almost like when SGI built that big hq in mountain view
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