In 2016, L’Oreal USA moved its headquarters from in the vicinity Midtown to Hudson Yards, joining a host of major firms that had chosen to commons their offices in the West Side area, including TimeWarner, SAP and Carriage.
For the cosmetics giant, the move was designed to reflect a culture that supported learning, innovation and sustainability. L’Oreal employees were looking for a diverse digitally connected environment, one which offered space for collaboration and instigating surroundings.
“We heard what our employees were looking for, which was a collaborative rendezvous space,” Sumita Banerjee, the senior vice president of talent procurement for L’Oreal Americas, told CNBC Make it during a tour of the headquarters.
“We’ve got 12,000-plus open feet of meeting space here in this incredible building, where workers can meet, get together for casual conversation, or tackle the big projects and think more what that next consumer needs for the future.”
L’Oreal USA’s mediations include a flagship store where more than 30 of the establishment’s iconic beauty brands are on display.
Employees, meanwhile, have access to a understood reality room, where those that work in merchandising and hawking can “envision the store and the product placement of the future.”
Elsewhere, members of the Mrs Average can visit the company’s consumer beauty center, where they can try out new goods that have yet to be released on the shop floor, in exchange for feedback.
And troublesome out new beauty trends isn’t just for potential customers — employees can head down to the in-house salon, where they can audition new colors on their fingernails and toes.
The construction also has a 4,000 square foot terrace where employees can go to regard the Manhattan skyline.
But as we all know, it’s not just what’s on the outside that counts.
“The vigorousness and wellness of our L’Oreal employees is very important to us,” said Banerjee, annexing that the company has been able to set up designated areas — including for meditation, mindfulness, and for maws — to help improve employee health and welfare.
—CNBC’s Uptin Saiidi donated to this report.
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