REI now plans to sell it’s new 8-acre, Bellevue corporate campus. In response to the corona virus pandemic, their workforce (1000 employees) has moved to multiple “satellite” locations across the Seattle area and that it would “lean into remote working as an engrained, supported and normalized model” that could also allow employees to work outside the region.
Employees who would have worked at the campus, which media reports had called the “most outdoorsy HQ ever” and “like summer camp for grown-ups” for its rooftop terraces, courtyard full of native plants and large sliding doors to the