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Employees are injuring themselves by walking into the glass walls of Apple's fancy new headquarters:
The centerpiece of Apple Inc.'s new headquarters is a massive, ring-shaped office overflowing with panes of glass, a testament to the company's famed design-obsessed aesthetic.
There's been one hiccup since it opened last year: Apple employees keep smacking into the glass.
Surrounding the Cupertino, California-based building are 45-foot tall curved panels of safety glass. Inside are work spaces, dubbed "pods," also made with a lot of glass. Apple staff are often glued to the iPhones they helped popularize. That's resulted in repeated cases of distracted employees walking into the panes, according to people familiar with the incidents.
Some staff started to stick Post-It notes on the glass doors to mark their presence. However, the notes were removed because they detracted from the building's design, the people said. They asked not to be identified discussing anything related to Apple. Another person familiar with the situation said there are other markings to identify the glass.
What kind of markings? Bloodstains?
Also at TechCrunch and MarketWatch.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @12:01PM (6 children)
You could put some colour in the glass (or put transparent coloured stickers on them afterwards, if you don't want to replace them)... doesn't need to be the whole glass. You could put a transparent blueish or greenish "wave" on the bottom part... or something... be creative.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @12:57PM (2 children)
More like, need someone with a clue.
Walking into glass doors happens a lot, and sometimes it's not because makers are missing (if there are non at all, that's negligence), but they might have been at the wrong level. So you add more, problem solved.
And you f*cking leave the post-its on until then. Unless you compete for biggest asshole in the universe, your sense of aethetics are simple not relevant if it impacts the health of your employees.
Maybe someone should remind them that if an employee gets hurt their health insurance might decide to get any costs back from Apple, which if it's permanent damage VERY quickly goes into the 10s of millions.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @03:02PM
Naah. Apple has the perfect defense: they were walking wrong.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday February 17 2018, @08:01PM
The problem is looking down (at the phone).
Just more proof that walking while dicking around on your phone is pretty dumb even in a supposedly benign environment.
Maybe they need those Yellow Warning surfaces [bing.com] on the FLOOR near doors (both sides of door). That ought to send Jon Ivy screaming from the room.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Saturday February 17 2018, @02:55PM (2 children)
Other senses work too, for example visually a very strong updraft or strong downdraft would be invisible, but WTF why is air blowing in my face six inches before I impact the window would work.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday February 17 2018, @08:06PM (1 child)
You trying to bring back 1957 [tumblr.com] all over again?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday February 19 2018, @01:11PM
LOL, in retrospect up or down is dumb, a very strong side side flow in the direction its safest to turn toward would be the most natural solution, strong wind in your face from the right, naturally turn left. At least you'd stop direct nose first impacts.