R/GA closes New York and San Francisco workplace areas amid bigger restructure

R/GA is closing its flagship Hudson Yards workplace in New York and its area in San Francisco, based on a memo R/GA CEO Sean Lyons despatched to the company.

Within the memo despatched yesterday, Lyons acknowledged that R/GA’s “cavernous, soccer field-sized,” Hudson Yards workplace hosts about “40 employees and some purchasers on any given day. We’re paying for one thing we don’t use and don’t want.”

R/GA will opening a brand new workplace area in New York in 2023 based on a spokeswoman for the company.

The information comes shortly after R/GA introduced its restructuring plans that had been mentioned to have an effect on workplace construction, staffing and the way the company goes to market. In accordance with a number of individuals near the state of affairs, R/GA had not too long ago gone via a second spherical of layoffs after it laid off 5% of its New York employees earlier this yr.

“At present, 45% of our U.S. employees dwell removed from our places of work, and 80% of our undertaking groups carry collectively expertise from multiple location,” Lyons wrote within the memo. “The power to carry expertise collectively from all over the place is the spine of our Distributed Creativity mannequin. Now we’d like the infrastructure that helps it.”