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Hi all!

This is going out only to the Patreon BTS tier.

You're getting a first-look at our new office. We are working toward moving into this new office and making it our home. GN has never operated out of a 'real' office before, so this is a big move -- but a necessary one. At this point, it is required to keep operating at the pace we have been. We've physically been bumping into each other while working over the last 8-12 months, and we're simply out of room. It has slowed down testing in a significant way, and has obstructed our ability to expand our in-depth testing and benchmarks. Because of this, and because (after ten years) it does get tiring having employees in and out of your house all day, we are making a big move.

We're keeping this financially responsible and are well within our means, and not over-buying. We will not need to change anything we are doing presently in order to accommodate the office, so please don't worry about "selling out," or anything like that. On the contrary, we can now do more in-depth benchmarking than ever, more livestreams, and have a better overall quality output.

It'll be a lot of work to get this place up to our standards, but we'll make it happen efficiently.

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oT8XsbZ1wI

Thank you for your ongoing support!

- Steve

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Patreon BTS: First Look at New GN Office

Comments

Colby Perry

As someone who's done some warehouse , lab area redesgining lately it helps out greatly to make a map (top down view) of the space to scale using a tool like Visio/Libre Office Design.

Ben Wolk

Showing dedication to your supporters for a 2am vlog!

Logan Steffen

Wow this is huge! I’m super excited for you guys and can’t wait to see it in use!

Hex & Violence

Great strategic move, done for all the right reasons and as I'm sure, done with the usual due diligence that you apply to your reviews and testing. Just factor in a Snowflake cat tree as a business expense and you'll be set - remember as a Staff member, Snowflake can claim travel expenses for working from a second location

Alexandra Ellwood

Looks great! My only recommendation is to use the smaller room with a window for people to work in (editing, etc.). Having moved from a windowless office to a windowed cubicle area I was surprised to discover that the natural light made it a net positive for my mood. This despite me being a night owl and very much disliking the loss of privacy and sound isolation.

Akif YILMAZ

Small room can be a test lab, like climate controlled enviroment. But since you have the luxury now definetely a chill room for you and staff,

TechProfessor

The bar table and stool idea is really cool for the community space in front of the kitchen area. Thinking about what areas would be high traffic and more accessible for the staff can help with the planning. A possibility is to think about where screens will be placed up on the walls and their function. Are they used for down time and leisure, a-roll, live b-roll, multi-use screens? Especially having the barstool area be used for interviewes, screens in the may make for an inviting interviewing set! Congrats and can't wait to see more!

Lance Snyder

That smaller room would be a great office for you... you really need an office.

SMGSterlin

Congrats on the office, Steve and crew, definitely hard earned, keep pushing out that journalism and science you guys are so good at. I see a few potential problems with the idea of those set locations though, that main room sounds pretty echoy and the window being right there might affect lighting as well as outside noise coming through. Also there's not much division between the rest of the office, depending on what else is going on while filming, how loud people are being, it could make filtering out that background noise harder. I feel like one of those smaller rooms might be a more controlled environment for filming, though it does make things cramped, not sure if it would be any better than the current filming room. All the problems with the main room are fixable though, just gonna require a bit more doing.

gamersnexus

Echo isn't a problem when a room is filled with stuff. We've already figured all that stuff out :)

BRUXXUS

Wow! This place is WAY bigger than I was expecting for some reason. I guess knowing how limited your current space is really makes anything seem expansive. I'm super excited for you. So many possibilities. I can't imagine how hyped you are to get to this point after so many years of hard work. Also, I bet being able to 'go to' work is a really fun and new concept. :)

ManBearPig

Where is the temp controlled server room ? You need some server racks for al that data man and an overkill wired network setup :p Just kidding but i would be great to troll Linus if you have a bigger and more professional looking one (doesn't matter what's inside the nodes, nobody knows :p )