Apple employees find themselves walking into glass walls.
- Frederik Herholdt
- Feb 18, 2018
- 2 min read
Apple Inc.’s new headquarters, based in Cupertino, California, boasts with a massive ring-shaped design. It showcases an overflow of glass pane walls. This design greatly hints at the company's design obsessed aesthetic. Truly a beautifully designed building, but...
The only problem the building has is that Apple employees keep on unexpectedly walking into the glass dominant walls. Surrounding the building are 14-meter tall curved panels of safety glass. Some of the Apple staff has tried to avoid colleagues from walking into the glass walls by sticking up Post-It notes on the glass doors to mark their presence. These Post-It notes were removed however, because they diverge from the building's design. Employees that discussed this with media asked not to be identified discussing anything Apple related. An Apple employee said that there are other markings that indicate where glass panels are.
How do the employees stumble into the walls and not see them before unexpected contact? According to people familiar with the incidents, they said that employees are often "glued" to their iPhones, this distracts them and results them walking into the glass walls that are somewhat difficult to notice when not paying attention.
The building is admired for its design by famed architect Norman Foster. It is designed to house 13,000 employees. Wired magazine was the first to visit the opening of the building last year and they described it as a “statement of openness, of free movement,”.
“While it is a technical marvel to make glass at this scale, that’s not the achievement,” Jony Ive, Apple design chief, told the magazine in May. “The achievement is to make a building where so many people can connect and collaborate and walk and talk.”
It is unclear how many of these incidents there have been, since an Apple spokeswoman declined to comment. A spokeswoman, based in Silicon Valley, for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said questions about Apple’s workplace safety record should be referred to the government agency’s website. A search on the site found no injury records up to date on Apple's new campus.
The glass pane "issue" is not a first for Apple, since an 83-year-old woman back in 2011 named Evelyn Paswall sued the company after walking into the glass wall of an Apple store, breaking her nose. She argued that there should have been warning signs. The case was settled with no cost to Apple.
Posted 18 February 2018 | Frederik Herholdt
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