I Left My Staff in San Francisco
To grab local talent and impress customers, Silicon Valley's tech companies are increasingly opening offices in the city by the Bay
Autodesk software engineer Hawkeye Parker would have to drive more than 20 miles north, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County, if he worked at his company's headquarters in San Rafael, Calif. Instead, 37-year-old Parker takes a seven-minute train from his home in San Francisco's bustling Mission District to the design-software maker's outpost on the city's eastern edge. The dress is casual, the office plan open, and the commute quick. "It's an engineer's place to work," says Parker. "I want to live in San Francisco. So there's kind of a symbiotic relationship there."
Put simply, San Francisco residents "hate commuting," says Autodesk (ADSK) Chief Executive Carl Bass. The $2 billion-a-year company, which houses 275 of its 7,000 employees at One Market St. in San Francisco, thinks customers prefer the city to the suburbs, too. In September, Autodesk plans to open its flagship "customer briefing center" in the same building to court the engineers, architects, and IT executives who buy its software.
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