Salesforce Tower celebrates opening

Salesforce has officially opened the doors of Salesforce Tower Chicago. Situated at the convergence of the north and south branches of the Chicago River, Salesforce Tower Chicago will serve as a beacon of Salesforce’s culture and our values, and a central gathering place for employees, customers, partners, and Trailblazers from around the world.

The top two floors in the 57-story office building are dedicated ‘Ohana Floors, spaces for their employees and guests to enjoy during the day, and available for local nonprofits to host fundraising events at night and on weekends at no cost. To date, the company’s ‘Ohana Floors around the world have helped raise more than $108 million for local communities.

For Salesforce Tower Chicago, the company has applied all they’ve learned post-pandemic to design spaces for how employees work today. When employees first came back to the office, it was primarily for collaboration, whether it be presentations, team off-sites, or brainstorms. Now that teams are coming in regularly, we’re also hearing that they need space for heads-down, focused work. Throughout the building, the design prioritizes flexibility and employee choice to ensure every individual and team can be successful.

The employee floors have been designed to provide focus spaces, like libraries and focus pods, and areas for team collaboration and connection, like event spaces and communal kitchens. These zones are separated acoustically at opposite ends of the floor to support a neurodiverse population and offer more choices for employees. Throughout the workspaces are a mix of mindfulness rooms, pods of height-adjustable desks, and meeting and training rooms. The library spaces provide a variety of individual work settings, including natural light at some seats or, if employees choose, darker spaces with tactile surfaces and task lighting for user control.

We’ve doubled the size of the social lounges on our employee floors to allow teams to transform these spaces for bespoke events and use them throughout the day as a working cafe. We’ve also added more conference and training rooms and flexible meeting space, equipped with the latest hybrid-work technology and room layouts to ensure our teams can connect with colleagues and customers around the world.

As one of their most sustainable buildings to date, Salesforce Tower Chicago is on track to achieve LEED v4 Gold Certification for the exterior of the building, LEED v4 Platinum for the interiors, and Zero Carbon Certification. The building is also powered by all-electric systems, meaning there is no on-site use of fossil fuels. It is the first building in Chicago to require Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) to quantify the embodied carbon emissions of concrete and steel, resulting in a 19% overall reduction in carbon emissions compared to the industry average.