Apparently Facebook has no issues providing a place for its highly populated platform but when it comes to employees in Palo Alto, number plays a vital role and it isn’t easy to accommodate them in one office. The result is the need to expand which is exactly what Facebook is doing. The social network which only recently occupied HP’s manufacturing building and turned into a pleasant place is not finding the space large enough and has leased 265,000 square feet of land. This new location is near the Page Mill Road and was previously the property of a medical diagnostic company.
Quite a large space and more importantly a substantial increase in the area too. But when you look at the employees it has the need to have a bigger space is justified. Facebook presently has more than a 1000 employees and predictions state that the number may increase to 1,500 in 2010. I am more than just impressed with this expansion and more importantly in the region. It began with a hardware manufacturing firm (HP) opening its factory here and now a software based business or to out it more correctly a .com company occupies a far larger area for its operations. That’s two large places for 350 million users, I wonder how many offices will it have once it has a Billion or more.
