Google Gets New DC Home
Google's growing Washington staff started their first week of work at their new headquarters on Monday. Sources tell Tech Daily Dose that it's a big improvement from the team's temporary space on Pennsylvania Avenue. I'd been in the old office a time or two and it seemed nice (but uncharacteristically bland for the colorful Web colossus).
The new address is 1101 New York Ave., NW and Googlers tell me that they plan on doing a media tour of the facility in early 2008. The building looks pretty sleek from the outside but I can't imagine that it stacks up to the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif.
Here are a few amenities that the mothership offers (ripped straight from Google's Web site) that I'm unrealistically hoping they gave their policy squad in the nation's capital:
▪ Recreation facilities: Workout room with weights and rowing machine, locker rooms, washers and dryers, massage room, assorted video games, Foosball, baby grand piano, pool table, ping pong, roller hockey twice a week in the parking lot.
▪ Google Café - Healthy lunches and dinners for all staff. Stations include "Charlie’s Grill," "Back to Albuquerque," "East Meets West" and "Vegheads." Outdoor seating for sunshine daydreaming.
▪ Snack Rooms - Bins packed with various cereals, gummi bears, M&Ms, toffee, licorice, cashew nuts, yogurt, carrots, fresh fruit and other snacks. Dozens of different drinks including fresh juice, soda and make-your-own cappuccino.
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