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As companies around the world rethink the future of physical office space, REI Co-op is moving forward with its plan to reimagine the future of work at the co-op.
REI announced last September that it had sold its newly completed corporate campus in Bellevue, Washington, with plans to shift to a more distributed work model. Today, the co-op announced that it has both identified the first of its future satellite offices in Issaquah, Washington, and will test a model that allows employees to work up to five days a week from home.
“We believe the future of work is much more fluid,” says Chris Putur, REI’s executive vice president of technology and operations. “We’re building the future around the work that needs to get done, and creating flexible, agile and inclusive ways to deliver innovation for our customers – and we no longer believe we need a traditional office model to do so.”
REI picks new satellite office ‘surrounded by trail networks’ By Heidi Groover, The Seattle Times
Published: February 25, 2021, 8:01am
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After abandoning its plans for a centralized Bellevue headquarters last year, REI has picked Issaquah for one of its several planned satellite offices.
The company announced Wednesday it will open an office for about 400 employees “surrounded by trail networks and sandwiched between Lake Sammamish Park and Cougar Mountain Wildland Park.”
REI will build out and lease a just-finished 68,876-square-foot office space at 2005 N.W. Poplar Way in Issaquah. The four-story office building advertises in-building showers, bike racks and several electric vehicle charging stations.
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SEATTLE, Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ As companies around the world rethink the future of physical office space, REI Co-op is moving forward with its plan to reimagine the future of work at the co-op.
REI announced last September that it had sold its newly completed corporate campus in Bellevue, Washington, with plans to shift to a more distributed work model. Today, the co-op announced that it has both identified the first of its future satellite offices in Issaquah, Washington, and will test a model that allows employees to work up to five days a week from home.