Well, welcome to our new San Mateo office for Snowflake, the data cloud company. We've taken the opportunity over the last 12 months to make some
significant improvements to the space, both here but also to our other offices globally, to really support safely returning to the office for our
employees.
When do you think people will be in here, coming in, signing in?
So we don't have a specific date by which we're planning to reopen the office just yet. When we do go into the green tier, we will take at least
60 days to continually monitor the situation and use that as a kind of a starting point for thinking about when we will return to the office.
The entire lobby has been completely renovated, so it's really a much more spacious environment. You'll see that there's not a lot of furniture in
here. So it really promotes social distancing. And hopefully, it gives our customers a sense of safety. And this is our company mascot, the polar
bear, and it's got a mask on as well.
We are very much focused on creating a much more flexible environment, so that we could adapt it over time. As employees return, we'll get a lot of
insight into how people want to work.
This is an example of a flexible collaboration space. By sliding the dividers across here, they have acoustical properties, so they create a
little bit of a sound barrier between what's going on inside there and folks walking past
As a result of the pandemic and our subsequent planning, the table itself grew wider. So the large TV and the high quality camera and the high
quality acoustics within the room are all around ensuring that we have a, you know, highly collaborative space, whether it be fully in person or kind
of a hybrid in person.
So this is the return to office package that will be given to each of our employees, their first day they are returned to office.
We have a Snowflake mask, hand sanitizer, a whiteboard wipe and pen. And the idea behind these is that we will no longer have whiteboard wipes and
pens in each of our conference rooms. The expectation is individuals will have their own dedicated unit so you're no longer sharing them.
So each morning you'll come in, retrieve your personal effects from the locker, place them on the desk. And at the end of each day, remove them.
One of the great things about that is it really enables us to have a much more robust sanitization program.
We don't want everybody arriving here at 12:15 to get lunch. There'll be no self-service at all. It is all served food. So we'll have staff members
here who will cook, prepare, and then package the food for you to pick up.
How this space is laid out, the furniture that we're using, the adaptability and flexibility of the spaces that we've created. I'm most
proud about that.
Very few companies today have opened their offices up, especially in this this area. And so we don't have a lot of concrete data to work on. So as
people return, technology will enable us to understand how people are going to work in the future and we can adapt the space accordingly.