Tobi Lutke said<\/a> in May that the company is digital by default and they are planning to keep offices shut until 2021 as they rework them for the COVID-10 norm. He added that office centricity is a thing of the past now and after reworking their offices most of its employees will be permanently working remotely. Lutke explained that in 2015 when Shopify went public it had some remote working staff acting as a bridge to the Shopify office. He said that going forward the future of the office is acting as the on-ramp to the digital workplace customers can access from the #WFH setup.<\/p>\nSince most of the merchants work remotely it is thus important to build Shopify in the same way and getting ready for new requirements, added Lutke. In June Shopify leased 24,630 sq. ft. of space at 148 Lafayette for its offices but hasn’t moved in and currently lists 627 Broadway as their local office. Currently, the Ottawa-based e-commerce firm is used by over 1 million enterprises globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP) is going into brick and mortar stores after taking over a SoHo storefront through a sublease from Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL). Shopify subleases Google space In New York In 2014, Google leased the 131 Green Street space but later abandoned it has spent around $6 million on renovations and operating a pop-up holiday store […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Shopify expands into brick and mortar store, subleasing Google space in New York","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1003,1039],"tags":[540,111,541,538,537,536,539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}