REI Wants to Sell Its Newly-Constructed Headquarters Before It Even Moves In

The workplace for REI Co-op is about to look vastly different. The outdoor retail giant announced today that it is looking to sell its newly-constructed corporate campus, which is located in Bellevue, Wash. REI started construction on the facility on an 8-acre plot of land the Spring District neighborhood in 2018 with the intent of moving in this summer. Also, the company said it moving toward “a less centralized approach to its headquarters presence in the Seattle area.” “The dramatic events of 2020 have challenged us to reexamine and rethink every aspect of our business and many of the assumptions of the past. That includes where and how we work,” REI president and CEO Eric Artz said to employees today, which was then shared in a statement. “As a result, our new experience of ‘headquarters’ will be very different than the one we imagined more than four years ago.” In a statement, REI said its headquarters will no longer be a single location, opting for multiple locations across the region. It also will make working remotely “an engrained, supported and normalized model,” which it has been doing with almost its entire workforce at the HQ since early March due to COVID-19 concerns. “We learned that

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