The resulting building form, while compact, places workstations close to windows. Bridges and convenience stairs cross this space, greatly easing communication among departments and encouraging casual meetings. Europeans see quality environments as adding to productivity. The workings of various departments also become more transparent because the arrangement of appealing communal spaces urges people to move upward and downward through the building. Training areas and an auditorium on the ground floor open to the atrium gathering space, which has been dubbed the Agora.
Employees go to the top floor to find the cafeteria and outdoor dining.
The company has documented the correlation between improved internal communication and the ease with which people move throughout the building and the staff's approval of the environment. The Agora has become an important meeting place, used for formal presentations and spontaneously arranged conclaves. Clients and vendors request meetings at the headquarters because they find it so appealing, consequently reducing the number of off-site trips employees must make. The headquarters has become a local landmark, with community groups requesting use of the space. Even ad agencies shoot commercials there for the lightness and warmth the building presents.