Now, “the idea of being isolated as a remote worker has its drawbacks.” At the start of the pandemic, the feeling was that “being remote sounds so great and so safe,” Mr. Salesforce’s thinking about the office has evolved, said Steve Brashear, the company’s senior vice president in charge of real estate. The company said last February that many employees could be fully remote, but shifted its messaging months later, saying that “something is missing” without office life and urging workers to come back in. Salesforce, whose signature tower looms over the San Francisco skyline, is moving forward with four new office towers planned before the pandemic, in Tokyo, Dublin, Chicago and Sydney, Australia. The company, which has battled with its employees over its plan for a majority of workers to return to offices most days each week, referred to its April news release about expansion but declined to comment further. In April, Apple said it would build a campus near Raleigh, N.C., and has added space in San Diego and Silicon Valley. The frenetic activity in the Phoenix suburbs is one of the most visible signs of a nationwide recovery in commercial office real estate fueled by the tech industry, which has enjoyed unchecked growth and soaring profits as the pandemic has forced more people to shop, work and socialize online. On a February morning, construction workers were putting the finishing touches on a 17-story Tempe office building expected to add 550 Amazon workers to the 5,000 already in the area.
Robinhood, the financial trading platform, rented out a floor in an office nearby. And they include some of the technology industry’s biggest names.ĭoorDash, the food delivery company, moved into a new building on the edge of a Tempe reservoir in the summer of 2020. Now, gleaming in the sunlight and stuffed with amenities, towering glass office buildings have sprouted up all over the Phoenix metropolitan area.Īrizonans are about to have new next-door neighbors.
Early in the pandemic, when shops along Mill Avenue in downtown Tempe closed their doors and students at nearby Arizona State University were asked to go home, the roar of construction continued to fill the air.
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