Apple Employees Can’t Stop Walking into Glass Walls

Last year, Apple finished construction on its new 175-acre campus, designed by the company’s design chief Jony Ive and British architectural firm Foster + Partners. The massive new office park, nicknamed “the spaceship” for its flying-saucer-esque design, was intended to reflect the multi-billion-dollar company’s unparalleled affinity for innovation. “While it is a technical marvel to make glass at this scale, that’s not the achievement. The achievement is to make a building where so many people can connect and collaborate and walk and talk,” Ive told Wired in May. “As with Apple’s products, Jobs wanted no seam, gap or paintbrush stroke showing; every wall, floor, and even ceiling is to be polished to a supernatural smoothness. All of the interior wood was to be harvested from a specific species of maple, and only fine quality ‘heartwood’ at the center of the trees would be used,” an insider told Bloomberg Businessweek in 2013.

For all the perfect curves and polished surfaces at the Cupertino headquarters, however, it would appear the campus is not without its flaws. Employees who work in the new ring-shaped Apple offices have at least one complaint: like little birds distracted by their iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches, Bloomberg reports that distracted employees have repeatedly run into Apple’s glass-walled workspaces. Worse, there seems to be relatively little the company is willing to do to counteract the issue:

SOURCE :- vanityfair