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Tech companies you’ll love to work for: Twitter

By Liu Hongzuo - 28 Mar 2016

Tech companies you’ll love to work for: Twitter

This is a four part mini-series about the cool tech companies we’ve visited. To read about other tech workplaces we’ve visited, click here.
Photography by Jasper Yu and Twitter.

 Loving where you work: A peek inside Twitter's offce

One of the many unique furnishing and decor found in Twitter's Singapore office.

To love where you work is not something everyone can say with conviction or in truth. The exception to that might be Twitter – where they make it very possible to fall for, and stay in love with the work they do. At the same time, Twitter’s work culture is a reflection of the social media platform’s style, which makes for an interesting dynamic environment that favors both introverts and extroverts.

 

What’s cool about this office?

The local office overlooks the Central Business District, giving the place a great view of our city and plenty of sunlight – a crucial factor dictating the office’s outstanding interior design.

The 20+ informal meeting spaces are decorated differently, each with its own cultural touch that's unique to Singapore.

It’s no surprise that Twitter offices are known to be beautiful given the amount of attention they’ve gotten in the last few years. What these reports miss out on, is how each Twitter office combines both their company’s culture and the local flavor of the country, making each Twitter office unique in each country they operate out of. For instance, the Singapore office which has a capacity of 150 employees adopts a mix of tropical and old-timey elements that’s unique to our past. Some ceilings are decorated with a mesh of bamboo sticks, while the 22 informal meeting rooms littered around the floor feature shophouse windows. Other decorative elements in the general office area come with potted plants hanging on grills that resemble an old HDB block among others.

These little touches combined with full-height windows that stretch from the floor to the ceiling, make the office look like a local bird preservation sanctuary. That probably won’t go down well in a different workplace, but Twitter would consider it a compliment – the design takes extra effort to incorporate both bird themes and the social media platform’s quirks into everything else.

The Library Room is more unique than the rest, since it offers a meeting space with a great view, and a general break from the working rhythm.

The one-piece, hard wood table that Twitter is very pleased about.

The meeting rooms are named after real and mythical birds, and all the facilities and equipment comes hashtagged with clever names. The design language is most evident in the Library meeting room, where it features a quiet space that faces the southern waters of Singapore – making it ideal for a short break. All the meeting rooms can be used at will, except for those that are already occupied by fellow coworkers, and the most formal Emu meeting room that’s usually readied for larger, higher-profiled formal meetings.

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