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New LinkedIn headquarters approved by city

Original post made on Dec 7, 2018

Last week, LinkedIn presented plans to build a showpiece headquarters in the city's East Whisman neighborhood. The proposed 1.1 million-square-foot office park was speedily approved by the City Council in a unanimous vote at the Nov. 27 meeting.

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Comments (13)

Posted by Don Keedick
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Dec 7, 2018 at 11:52 am

Don Keedick is a registered user.

Yay!! Another Win for post-industrial brutalist holding cell architecture in Mountain View!!


Posted by It's OK
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Dec 7, 2018 at 1:52 pm

It's not Google so nobody is outraged. Unless they can blame Google they don;t really care.


Posted by Make them telecommmute
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Dec 7, 2018 at 2:19 pm

New building permits should come with the stipulation that at least 30% of the building workers will telecommute at least 2 x per week. If we had that now traffic would not be the way it is.
MV used to encourage companies to do that.


Posted by Dot Com 1.0
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Dec 7, 2018 at 3:31 pm

Old fogie here. Back in my day, in the 90's, all the companies had they're folks telecommuting. It made tremendous sense on most all fronts, but today's business environment calls for the commute. That could change if people wanted it to.


Posted by Old Mtn View
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Dec 7, 2018 at 4:54 pm

This is when people complain about the deal but don’t bother to show up at the meeting. It’s called democracy people. Show up or shut up.


Posted by No worries
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Dec 7, 2018 at 5:51 pm

Now that LinkedIn has received approval, they will sell the project to Google for a profit, just like they did near google hq...


Posted by Clearly
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Dec 8, 2018 at 5:27 am

The Google hate has driven some to madness.


Posted by Bill
a resident of Rex Manor
on Dec 8, 2018 at 6:01 am

Nice, I wish I could get one of those big paying tech jobs with free lunches but they do not want to hire people that are over fifty.


Posted by Old coot
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Dec 8, 2018 at 10:30 am

@Bill, that's not what I have found Bill. I'm 54 and have had 3 new jobs in the past 5 years, on my own accord; never laid off.
Many times people use age as an excuse, but if you have the skills they need, they need you.
What is your field of expertise?


Posted by Reader G
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Dec 8, 2018 at 4:20 pm

Whining, apparently.


Posted by DC
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Dec 8, 2018 at 8:16 pm

This is the 1st I have heard of it. LinkedIn Sunnyvale building was too large for the area. Try not to allow that in Mtn View.


Posted by Responding to "It's OK"
a resident of Castro City
on Dec 8, 2018 at 9:38 pm

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Posted by Engineer
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Dec 9, 2018 at 8:44 am

@Old coot
Have you heard about VRP ( voluntary retirement packages)? Our company offered them to almost all workers that were over 50, and it seems the same policy is implemented by some other conpanies. I'm not complaining, but age discrimination is there.


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