Quartz moving HQ to accommodate more staff

Financial news site Quartz is moving its New York headquarters.

Quartz, which has been located near Union Square since 2013, is moving to 675 Avenue of the Americas and will sign a five-year lease.

The current location allows it to have about 115 employees, but the new space can accommodate up to 200 workers. When it launched in 2012, Quartz had  about 20 New York-based employees squeezed into a small office in SoHo.

Executive editor Zach Seward writes, “With this move, we’ve put an emphasis on capturing the culture, or Quartziness, that defines Quartz employees and their work: global, nerdy, creative, and so on. (For a taste of that culture, check out photos of the team on Tumblr.)

“One Quartzy trait is experimentation, so we’ve decided to make this move public in a new publication here on Medium called The Office. It’s all about this underlying question shared by so many growing firms: How do you capture a company’s culture in a physical space? We’ll also discuss less existential, but nonetheless important, questions like how to do standing desks and why videoconferencing is still such a struggle. Our hope is that you’ll find the discussion valuable and even help us answer a few questions.

“This diary is part of a new obsession at Quartz, also called The Office, which is exploring the future of work, from management structures to the gig economy to distributed workplaces to compensation.”

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