If It’s Good Enough For Facebook

Facebook employees looking for a break from sitting hunched over a computer don t need to venture far from the company s new office space. They just need to walk upstairs to the roof. A 9-acre green roof sits atop the tech firm s new Frank Gehry-designed building across from its main headquarters, filled with a plethora of native trees and flowers, lawn furniture, white boards, viewing decks and a half-mile walking trail overlooking the city s marshlands. It s more like a park than the top of an office and big enough to accommodate a large number of the 2,800 employees who are expected to eventually fill up the newly opened building, even on a warm summer s day. Boosting Concentration A recent article in the Daily Mail has also highlighted a University of Melbourne study which has found that that the installation of a green roof can also help to improve the levels of concentration of employees. The article explained: Students who glanced at an image of a flowering meadow green roof in
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