Amazon introduces giant treehouse spheres to relax employees

Amazon introduces giant treehouse spheres to relax employeesAmazon introduces giant treehouse spheres to relax employeesWhile many of us have desk plants, Amazon is building a entire forested office, a biosphere of three enormous domes filled with greenery, konzeptioned to help employees breathe better and feel unstressed at work.Amazons new workspace- three glass and steel domes reportedly called The Spheres - will be home to a large amount of plants, and will open in 2018. The structure is not meant to be a full-time office space about 800 employees at a time can work in the Spheres, which is like a forested conference space without walls or partitions.The structure got a ceremonial first planting of the 400-plus species of plants that will eventually reside inside on Thursday, according toSFGate reported. There are roughly 40,000 plants destined to live in the domes, according to Wired.They are the result of innovative thinking about the character of the workplace and an extended conversation about what is typically missing from urban offices - a direct link to nature, Amazon reportedly said in a statement.The buildings focus on natural greenery is changing the way people think aboutthe classic office space.Suspension bridges for hallways and birds nests for meetingsCNBC reported that the domes will be part of Amazons headquarters, and that they are meant to be a greenhouse-like setting for employees to chill.Bloomberg reportedin 2016 that Amazon has labeled the structures Biospheres, workers will have the option to stroll along suspension bridges and work in meeting spacesresembling bird nests perched in mature trees.Although SFGate recently reportedthat there wont be any enclosed offices or conference rooms, and that two other high-rises have opened forthe growing new campus in the Denny Triangle, the plant-filled spheres are getting the lions share of the attention for their futuristic planning.Bloomberg article points out the significance of where the collection of structures is located within a thriving urban district hospitable to community living.But the most trend-setting and appealing feature of the new complex is most likely its location plopped between glass and steel high-rises on a busy street in downtown Seattle where food trucks are abundant, apartments are within walking distance and Happy Hour greets employees at quitting time, Spencer Soper and Peter Robinson wrotefor Bloomberg.Sphere-inspired clothingAmazon already knows the spaces will have star power. The spheres have an Instagram account seattlespheres - and an employee even designed a dress modeled after the geode-like Seattle structure.The Evergrey reported that Amazon workers have taken photos of the domes as part of a company photo contest last week, and that artist, designer and Amazon design technologist Sheridan Martin went to work on a dress inspired by them. Search the hashtag amazonemployeecontest on Instagram to see additional photos of the building, and check out Martins Instgram page (sheridanzig) for more on her work.It looks like Amazons new structure is already changing the ways people think about and interact with their workspaces.There is no word, however, on what employees who have hay fever will do.