Image Credits: DropboxĪs Houston said when he appeared at TechCrunch Disrupt last year, his company sees this as an opportunity to be on the forefront of distributed work and act as an example and a guide to help other companies as they undertake similar journeys. “We focused on having really great curated in-person experiences, some of which we coordinate at the company level and then some of which you can go into our studios, which have been refitted to support more collaboration,” he said.ĭropbox Studio classroom space. Houston says that the company really wanted to think about how to incorporate the best of working at home with the best of working at the office collaborating with colleagues. And we took the opportunity as part of our focus to reimagine the office into a collaborative space that we call a studio,” Houston told me.

“We’re soft launching or opening our Dropbox Studios week in the U.S., including the one in San Francisco. Instead, he wants to create a new approach that takes into account that people don’t necessarily need a permanent space in the building. As a result, he wanted his company to rethink the office design with one that did away with cube farms with workers spread across a landscape of cubicles. He doesn’t think that many businesses will simply go back to the old way of working. Amidst all this, Dropbox has decided to reimagine the office with a new concept they are introducing this week called Dropbox Studios.ĭropbox CEO and co-founder Drew Houston sees the pandemic as a forcing event, one that pushes companies to rethink work through a distributed lens. Some are considering a hybrid approach and some may not go back to a building at all.

Tech companies in particular are assessing whether they will ever again return to a full-time, in-office approach. The pandemic has been a time for a lot of reflection on both a personal and business level.

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