Salesforce, a provider of customer relationship management software, announced the opening of its Chicago office building on Tuesday, a project first announced in 2018. While the Silicon Valley-based company has had a presence in the Windy City for a decade, it plans to continue driving community impact through its new tower.
Over the years, Salesforce has grown its Chicago presence through its philanthropic model, contributing $16 million in grants to local nonprofit organizations and providing 270,000 hours of community service through its workforce. The company also followed through on its 2018 commitment to creating and filling 1,000 Chicago-based jobs within five years.
Space in Salesforce Tower is also dedicated to the community. When employees and their guests aren’t occupying the top two floors of the building, the company reserves that space for local nonprofits to host fundraising events.
Alongside offering an event space for local organizations, Salesforce Tower Chicago also features an array of amenities to accommodate employees in a post-pandemic work world. The office includes collaborative spaces like communal kitchens, meeting rooms and social lounges as well as spaces to promote individual work, like libraries and focus pods. The office is also arranged in a way that supports neurodivergent employees, with the various communal spaces separated acoustically at opposite ends of the floor.
Additionally, all of the office’s conference rooms are outfitted with technology to support Salesforce’s hybrid workforce, including audio-visual equipment for meetings and rearrangeable lounge spaces for team events and more.
Salesforce has made an effort to ensure its addition to the Chicago skyline is an eco-friendly one. The building is powered by all-electric systems and incorporates design features such as carpeting made from recyclable materials.
