Office Move
Mar. 28th, 2013 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisMy Dear Employer has made the official announcement: our San Francicsco bay area business offices are consolidating.
Currently, our primary offices are in Foster City, mid-peninsula, but we also have some office space in downtown San Francisco we gained via a business acquisition about 1.5 years ago. As of June 1, we're consolidating at the SF location, 301 Howard Street.
What does this mean to me? Not much, directly: the production data center I care for in Sterling, VA, will still be there. Indeed, we've just renewed our lease there for three years.
Indirectly, there may be some impact to the SF move. Our non-production data center will still be in Santa Clara, CA (we renewed our lease there for one year). If I'm visiting my corporate overlords in SF downtown, it's unlikely I'll be driving south to that data center: we'll just redirect our folks who live in the mid-peninsula or south bay area to that data center as needed.
The bigger, intermediate question for me is where exactly I'll be staying when I visit the mothership: there has been no word yet on which will be our officially blessed corporate hotel and therefore I have no clue at this moment if I'll be renting a car for the week (unlikely) or just on an as-needed basis (vastly more likely). Memo to self: check into Zipcar and similar.
BTW, we're still hiring, perhaps more than ever. No doubt there will be some employees who will not want to make the commute into downtown SF daily so we may be hiring a lot of web development folks in the next two months. My own team is still looking to hire two Linux systems administrators to work primarily out of the new SF location. If you're even vaguely interested, let me know!
Currently, our primary offices are in Foster City, mid-peninsula, but we also have some office space in downtown San Francisco we gained via a business acquisition about 1.5 years ago. As of June 1, we're consolidating at the SF location, 301 Howard Street.
What does this mean to me? Not much, directly: the production data center I care for in Sterling, VA, will still be there. Indeed, we've just renewed our lease there for three years.
Indirectly, there may be some impact to the SF move. Our non-production data center will still be in Santa Clara, CA (we renewed our lease there for one year). If I'm visiting my corporate overlords in SF downtown, it's unlikely I'll be driving south to that data center: we'll just redirect our folks who live in the mid-peninsula or south bay area to that data center as needed.
The bigger, intermediate question for me is where exactly I'll be staying when I visit the mothership: there has been no word yet on which will be our officially blessed corporate hotel and therefore I have no clue at this moment if I'll be renting a car for the week (unlikely) or just on an as-needed basis (vastly more likely). Memo to self: check into Zipcar and similar.
BTW, we're still hiring, perhaps more than ever. No doubt there will be some employees who will not want to make the commute into downtown SF daily so we may be hiring a lot of web development folks in the next two months. My own team is still looking to hire two Linux systems administrators to work primarily out of the new SF location. If you're even vaguely interested, let me know!
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Date: 2013-03-28 10:58 pm (UTC)My inner cynic also wonders if the move will shed a few bodies in certain teams without having to worry about a massive severance by having the deadwood resign rather than be laid off.