An aerial view of Apple s headquarters in Cupertino, California
Some companies may eschew a headquarters entirely. Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase declared as part of its recent initial public offering filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its workforce is entirely remote, and thus it has no headquarters. Coinbase didn t respond to requests for comment.
It is perhaps appropriate that a company operating in such a digitally native space would not find the need to have its employees meet IRL to build culture, as was the case for plenty of tech startups years before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.