The Office
Quartz is moving. In this diary, the question is: How do you capture a company’s culture in a physical space? Help us figure it out.
Along with the books, we should probably design a bookplate so that when these volumes eventually…
get borrowed, forgotten about, and left on a Prospect Heights stoop after some spring cleaning, the new owner will know where it came from.get borrowed, forgotten about, and left on a Prospect Heights stoop after some spring cleaning, the new owner will know where it came from. Ex Libris Quartz.
David YanofskyMar 22
Uh-oh… corporate IT is here :)
On balancing flexibility and policy in the new officeQuartz is moving to a new office in New York. We’re documenting it here because many of our questions apply to other startups. Our introduction explains more about what we’re up to. Follow our publication for updates. ¶ Hi there! ¶ My name is Drew, and I don’t actually work at Quartz. I’m the director of technology for all of Atlantic Media, which is Quartz’s parent company. That means I work across all of our brands, including Quartz, The Atlantic, National Journal, Government Executive…
Drew SandquistMar 22
The #qzla office, aka my house, had an espresso machine.
Anyway, espresso is a lot of work and really hard to make well. It’s fun, for sure, but any machine that is going to have the right feel of…It has traveled with me up north to the yet to be named place that I now work. ¶ Anyway, espresso is a lot of work and really hard to make well. It’s fun, for sure, but any machine that is going to have the right feel of actually making espresso is probably going to be too much of a pain for office use. (I think Zach was the one who enlightened me to the cake-mix dilemma) The quality we get out of it will also probably be very low.David YanofskyFeb 24
The Office
Quartz is moving. In this diary, the question is: How do you capture a company’s culture in a physical space? Help us figure it out.
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