but where will Zuckerberg find the 7,000 sqft needed for Office
Space?
I guess it is time to bring things back to where they began.
Facebook left The Greater Boston Area after a very short stay in
order to flock to Silicon Valley where it was assumed the firm
simply had to be in order to grow. Well, as it turns out, it was
not long ago in a blog post when we shared that Founder and CEO Mark
Zuckerberg reflected on his early experiences with the company
and wished that he instead grew the brand out of Boston. This
regret certainly has not proven detrimental to the brand and
Zuckerbergs overall worth in the end, however moving back to Boston
may soon be a welcomed realization.
The Harvard University student who formed the Facebook
phenomenon in his dorm along with friends has developed his empire
into a $66 Billion social network power. Now while the majority of
those employed under Zuckerbergs umbrella will remain on the West
coast of the United States, some three dozen or so software
engineer jobs are to be hired in Boston over the next six months.
These brilliantly bright individuals will soon call upwards of
7,000 square feet of office space home which is currently being
sought after by Facebook. Hoping to replant their roots in the
Cambridge area of Kendall Square, a source stated that, They want
to have a larger footprint here. They want to be near MIT to
recruit staff and they want to be next to similar firms.
Some of the similar firms that are worth mentioning include
Microsoft Corp., Nokia, Google, among others who are all increasing
their presence in the Boston and Greater Boston areas. Currently,
there are only four Facebook employees in this region who are based
out of 711 Atlantic Avenue in Bostons Financial District. Now
Facebook has turned their attention to facilities such as Cambridge
Center and One Kendall Square to house the future staff and to
support the businesses prolonged growth on this local level. The
familiarity Facebooks leading individuals have with Boston coupled
with the added connectivity workers will have here in this thriving
high-tech business environment will only be improved by the added
ability to recruit from the finest Colleges and Universities
throughout the World right here in Boston; and that is something
Facebook will undoubtedly like.
More Information: Boston Business
Journal