[ericjang]

Pardon the naive question, but is a high-rise corporate office like this one (and firms in NYC) preferable to a sprawling "groundscraper" campus (Google, FB)? Which layout costs less? How does this affect management and organizational structure?

[feel_the_need]

One thing is location. Very hard to get a lot of land and approval to build a sprawling campus in the center of a city like San Francisco.

[traek]

Interestingly, Salesforce was originally planning to build a 14-acre campus in San Francisco (the Mission Bay neighborhood), but had to scrap those plans due to growth[1].

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Salesforce-s-fast-gr...

[themark]

They seem to have managed the growth just fine. I don’t think they wanted to manage a massive construction project.