Roadie, a last-mile delivery platform, has had its headquarters in a 7K SF Buckhead office since 2014, but when its lease expired Friday, rather than renew or relocate, the company made the decision that commercial landlords have been dreading since the pandemic set in: It decided it doesn't need an office, at least for now. Roadie CEO Marc Gorlin and the leadership team decided to keep the company's more than 100 employees working from home for the foreseeable future, a spokesperson confirmed to Bisnow. “We're going to wait until we know a little more about what our needs are going to be like, what the world is going to be like,” spokesperson Heather Hughes said. “The world just seems so fluid right now, so we won't be moving in anywhere new.”
Roadie is one of thousands of small and midsized companies wrestling with just how much office space they will need in a world where some portion of employees will likely be working from home at least part of the time. As the world emerges from the coronavirus pandemic, this leasing existential… Read the full story here. |