In a seven-story office, “Where are you?” is a frequent question
Image credit: The new HQ of PTC is located at 121 Seaport; the main entrance is on the 17th floor. (Photo credit: Lucia Maffei / BostInno)
Things didn’t look like this in Needham, for sure.
After 18 years in the greater Boston area, industrial software maker PTC – one of the biggest software companies in Massachusetts, with more than $1 billion in revenue and 6,000 employees worldwide – completed a move from Needham to 121 Seaport in Boston’s Seaport District—the same building that’s home to Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
The new HQ is spread across the six floors where employees work, plus one floor to demo PTC’s technologies to customers, which includes a medical lab, a smart manufacturing lab and a maker lab. In the building, PTC is also subleasing two more floors that it will eventually use to expand its workforce. The total adds up to nine floors, or 250,000 square feet.
The setting of the new office is meant to get people to interact, as opposed to the old offices where everybody tended to work in isolation. Plus, technology helps executives keep an eye on what’s going on in this (almost) little city.
“The Internet of Things is part of our business, as well as our furniture,” said John Civello, vice president for corporate real estate at PTC.
At PTC, employees don’t have assigned desks. Instead, they’re assigned to a ‘neighborhood,’ such as the Finance Neighborhood or the IT Neighborhood; each neighborhood occupies one or more ‘quarters’ of each floor. To monitor desk usage, every workstation has a sensor that signals whether a desk is occupied or not; data gathered in this way help execs understand usage patterns of each neighborhood. Like desks, conference rooms are identified by a code that signals their exact location.
Here are a few pics that I took during my tour of the massive, new HQ of PTC:
The main entrance of the new office of PTC is on the 17th floor, where there’s also a large area to showcase PTC tech to customers. (Image credit: Lucia Maffei / BostInno)
There are no assigned desks at PTC. Each floor is divided into four quarters, and employees are assigned to a “neighborhood.” For example, on the 14th floor, two quarters belong to the Finance Neighborhood and two quarters to the IT Neighborhood. (Image credit: Lucia Maffei / BostInno)
Before moving to Boston Seaport, PTC was in Needham, Mass. for 18 years. (Image credit: Lucia Maffei / BostInno)
There are around 200 conference rooms in the new office of PTC, plus a number of collaboration spaces. (Image credit: Lucia Maffei / BostInno)
There’s one kitchen on every floor; each kitchen has a different theme, such as ‘Coffee house.’ (Image credit: Lucia Maffei / BostInno)
Time to get your work done… in a hanging egg chair. (Image credit: Lucia Maffei / BostInno)
Employees can book a room directly on the conference room screen. If no one shows up 10 minutes after the starting time of the meeting, the conference room returns marked as “available.” (Image credit: Lucia Maffei / BostInno)
Around 1,000 employees across six floors work at PTC. (Image credit: Lucia Maffei / BostInno)
The office of PTC is equipped with soundproof phone booths, where employees can take personal or sensitive calls. Lockers are also available for things like laptops, backpacks and personal items. (Image credit: Lucia Maffei / BostInno)
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