Salesforce tower parking9/8/2023 ![]() ![]() And there's a nice assortment of chairs, benches and couches if you want to spend part of the short tour time to relax and soak up the view from one side of the building.Īnd you probably know that you have to sign up for the tours, months in advance. ![]() There are a couple hundred people on each tour, but there's a decent amount of room to spread out without bumping into each other. So your photos may be uninspiring, compared to your brain factoring those two out while you sight see. ![]() There are reflections off the inside of the windows. There are some challenges, trying to take photos of the jaw-dropping view:Ģ. So the maximum viewing time you will have, is one hour. The earlier you go through that process, the more time you get to spend enjoying the view. It takes time to go through the registration desk, and security. If you have time beforehand, line up early. Tour ends promptly at the end of the one-hour time slot. It's one-stop shopping for all of the major SF landmarks: Bay Bridge / Alcatraz / GG Bridge / Oracle Park / Ferry Building / Chase Center. We exited the building and felt it was a one and done. “Everything OK, don’t you want to stay longer” We took the elevator down by ourselves and were met with confused faces at the bottom. We could have stayed for an hour but were bored after 20 minutes. San Francisco, not so much yes, you see the Bridges, Bay and the smaller buildings in the area but it did not excite us. Full disclosure, I have been to the top of Taipei 101, Willis Tower and the Burj Khalifa and those were spectacular views. Īt the top, it was a nice view but not spectacular. A quick verification of our appointment with ID and a walk through the security detector was done expeditiously. The “helpers” were very hyper and excited that we were there. It was a patchy cloudy day and looked like it would clear out by the time my wife and I reached the top. Being in San Francisco, the biggest concern whether we would see anything if the fog rolled in. Google is also perhaps the best known purveyor of workplace perks for staffers, notably its free staffed kitchen inside its decidedly un-office-like workspaces that extoll free-range productivity coupled with kooky features like slippery dips and monorail cars for meeting rooms.I signed up for a couple of tickets to go to the top of Salesforce at the end of September. Microsoft in the US famously restored its staff laundry service after it was yanked as part of Steve Ballmer’s infamous US$1 billion cost cull in 2004 that resulted in high profile talent defecting to then up-and-comers like Google. Salesforce employees and other paying tenants will likely get hot showers, fluffy towels, lockers and potentially a “sweats” service to launder their lycra between trips, while public users will get more basic bike cage access alongside a “bicycle maintenance station”.Ĭatering to the needs of exercise-addicted staff is no small thing for tech giants, especially when creature comforts can make the difference between attracting and keeping sought-after talent, over letting them jog across to competitors. We suspect this translates to a two-tier offer. “This is in addition to the world-class end-of-trip facilities and circa 450 bikes located within the tower to accommodate workers.” “The hub is available to anyone who rides into the city, and use is available on a low-cost membership basis through the City of Sydney. ![]()
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