EY Opens New 102,000-Square-Foot Office in Midtown Atlanta
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EY has thrown open the doors to a new 102,000-square-foot office at Ten Twenty Spring in Midtown Atlanta, spreading its workforce across three floors designed with one goal in mind: making the commute feel worth it. Gone are the cubicles. In their place: sit-stand desks, quiet spaces, movie-screening features and a rooftop. The accounting and consulting giant recently debuted the office, according to AJC.com, which toured the space in Midtown. The outlet described a workplace stocked with quiet settings, movie-screening features, monitors, curtains and coffee areas scattered throughout the three floors - plus a detail that's hard to miss: a market-tested fragrance engineered to smell like cucumber and mint, pumped through the space. The build-out reflects a broader industry anxiety about getting employees back through the door. Joe Pearson, quoted in the AJC report, said people usually push back when told to return to a physical office, and he's hoping EY's new Atlanta workplace becomes the exception rather than the rule. EY leaders reportedly chose Ten Twenty Spring, a choice the firm frames as both a retention tactic and a way to compete for talent. Regenia Sanders, also cited in the AJC piece, said amenities like these matter most for hybrid employees who are only commuting two to three days a week - the group EY most needs to convince that the trip downtown or into...
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