Name: Tencent's vertical campus
Uploaded: 2018-06-01T01:38:21.000Z
Duration: 3 min 20 s
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It used to be regarded as a workshop of the world,

but now it's home to some of the most advanced technology

on the planet and some of the world's most innovative office

This is a new home of Tencent, China's biggest tech company.

They're the people behind messaging WeChat, which

It's no ordinary company, and this is no ordinary building.

It's been designed to encourage extraordinary thinking.

put your head down, get the work done, all that kind of stuff,

we know from our own research and experience, that

The random interaction workplace is a really big deal,

and it makes a really big difference in terms

That's why they came up with these sky bridges

linking the two towers, designed as a place for people to meet.

It's like going to the water cooler in a conventional office

to have a gossip, except Tencent workers have

to come here because it's the only way they

Never seen a climbing wall quite this high.

the well-being of the employee, the fitness and employee is

centre to a successful high performance company,

It's a little bit intimidating, that wall,

For a company built around people hunching

There's a running track that bends around the two

towers, a basketball court, and ranks of pool tables

but which look like the Hale from a Quangdong factory.

So the other sort of thing that you always

associate with tech companies is the bean bags, the lamps.

A lot of companies have moved beyond that.

In the end of the day, how comfortable are bean bags?

Clearly the real point of Tencent is work.

combining the services of Facebook, Apple, Amazon,

But the higher like zones of workstations could be mistaken

It really seems just very paired back, absolutely zero frills.

The sort of utilitarian, almost like here style lamps

The building will soon be home to 10,000 people.

From the top, you can pick out other Chinese tech giants

while enjoying a sneaky cigarette if the running track

But will sky bridges and ping pong tables really

that designers claim generate brilliant ideas,

WeChatting each other from different floors?

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