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 Falcon Edge is expected to pump in around $20 million in the new round while <keyword id="2788417" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Accel-US">Accel US</keyword> will put $5 million, sources said. Accel US was an investor in TaxiForSure (TFS) and became an Ola shareholder post its recent acquisition. Ola's other existing investors -including Tiger Global, Matrix Partners, <keyword id="6497288" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Steadview-Capital">Steadview Capital</keyword> --are also participating in the new financing round. 
 
 The latest fund-raise is likely to value the company at $2.5 billion post the investment, as reported by this newspaper first in its February 26 edition. Russian billionaire <keyword id="303107" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Yuri-Milner">Yuri Milner</keyword>'s DST, a significant investor in e-commerce biggie Flipkart, is expected to hold just under 10 per cent stake in the four-year-old company , post the new round. 
 
 When contacted by TOI, Bhavish Agarwal, co-founder, Ola, did not offer any comments, while Falcon Edge could not be reached immediately for a response. Founded by <keyword id="2566840" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Richard-Gerson">Richard Gerson</keyword> together with <keyword id="2788418" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Navroz-D-Udwadia">Navroz D Udwadia</keyword> and James Minshull, Falcon Edge leads the pack of a new breed of <keyword id="42111" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Wall-Street">Wall Street</keyword> hedge funds, a Tiger Global offshoot, managing more than $4 billion in assets. Its India <keyword id="6362476" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="investments">investments</keyword> include realty portal <keyword id="35061" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="housing">Housing</keyword> and <keyword id="2112984" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Newshunt">NewsHunt</keyword>, a mobile news aggregation service. 
 
 
Hedge funds like Falcon Edge, Valiant Capital and Steadview Capital, among others, funneled big money into Indian consumer internet companies last year, fanning the already frothy valuations of these tech startups. 
 The latest round of fundraise for Ola, founded by IITBombay batchmates Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati in 2011, would put it right up in <keyword id="819204" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="the-League">the league</keyword> of the most valuable internet firms domestically .Ola's $210-million fund-raise led by <keyword id="163404" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Softbank">SoftBank</keyword> in October last year valued it at $650 million -post-money -making the Japanese investor the startup's largest investor. 
 
The cab aggregator is present across 67 cities and has received $277 million of capital across five financing rounds. Its biggest competitor taxi-hailing app Uber had stepped on the gas in India by doling out huge discounts to riders. However, its growth has stalled considerably post the rape of a female passenger by one of its drivers last year in Delhi.

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Hello, everyone! Welcome to the new edition of <keyword id="9095853" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="insider-today">Insider Today</keyword>. Please <a href="https://www.insider.com/insider-today">sign up here</a>.<h2>QUOTE OF THE DAY</h2>"Our state appetizer, calamari, is available in all 50 states." — <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/19/calamari-rhode-island-comeback-dnc/">Rhode Island Democratic Party Chair Joseph M. McNamara</a>, interrupting his state's roll-call endorsement of <keyword id="99719" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joe-Biden">Joe Biden</keyword> to tout the local seafood. <h2>WHAT'S HAPPENING</h2><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/postmaster-general-will-suspend-service-changes-until-after-election-2020-8">Postmaster general will suspend all service changes until after the election</a>. In the face of immense public outcry, Louis DeJoy said he'd delay his operational reforms until after the election. Post offices will maintain retail hours. Overtime will be permitted. Mail-processing facilities won't be cut back.Rave reviews for the second night of the Democratic convention. The party <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-formally-attains-democratic-nomination-for-president-2020-8">officially nominated Biden</a> for president with a glorious coast-to-coast (and beyond) video montage from 57 states, territories, and districts. Jill Biden also gave a much-praised speech, and more Republicans (Cindy McCain, Colin Powell) explained why they're choosing a Democrat over Trump. Tonight is star-studded: Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, and Barack Obama will headline, and Kamala Harris will give her much anticipated acceptance speech. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/world/covid-19-coronavirus.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage#link-2b2713a52b2713a5">Top health officials delayed emergency FDA approval of blood plasma COVID treatment.</a> The Food and Drug Administration was poised to approve the treatment, which is derived from survivors of COVID-19, but last week Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health director intervened, arguing that the clinical data is not yet strong enough to justify the approval. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-supports-oracle-buy-of-tiktok-larry-ellison-donor-2020-8">Trump seems to favor Oracle's bid to acquire TikTok's US operations.</a> Oracle boss Larry Ellison is a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-support-2020-4">Trump supporter</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-billionaire-larry-ellison-is-fundraising-for-donald-trump-2020-2">donor</a>, and Trump seems to want Oracle, not Microsoft, to acquire ByteDance's US operations. Last week, Trump gave ByteDance 45 days to start a US sale or risk being shut down.<h2>VIEWS OF THE DAY</h2><div type="image" title="Erik Prince" height="1000" width="2000" msid="77641588" hostid="261"></div>So you can just lie to Congress now?In June 2019, the Senate Intelligence Committee wrote a criminal referral letter to the US attorney's office in Washington, DC, for Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, former Trump adviser <keyword id="3581499" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Steve-Bannon">Steve Bannon</keyword>, Donald Trump Jr., and <keyword id="4323281" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Erik-Prince">Erik Prince</keyword> (a modern-day mercenary, extremely wealthy Trump donor, and brother to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos). The <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-14/senate-committee-sought-investigation-of-bannon-raised-concerns-about-trump-family-testimony">Los Angeles Times</a> broke this story on Friday, and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/senate-made-criminal-referral-trump-jr-bannon-kushner-two-others-n1237155">NBC News</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-committee-donald-trump-jr-jared-kushner-stephen-bannon-erik-prince/2020/08/15/a7905a84-def5-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html">The Washington Post</a> have since confirmed it.The letter was bipartisan, signed by Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, the panel's chairman at the time, and Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia. It raises concerns that these people may have misled Congress in their testimony about the investigation into Russia's ties to the Trump campaign.The committee said it had questions about issues with testimony from Trump Jr., former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, and Kushner because it contradicted things said by Rick Gates, a former associate of Paul Manafort, who is serving out a prison sentence in home confinement. Those may or may not have been outright lies.Prince, Bannon, and Sam Clovis (a lesser known Bannon associate also involved in this Russia mishegoss) get a more severe treatment from the committee's letter. Those men are suspected of making false statements outright. According to the LA Times, they may have lied about a meeting they planned in Seychelles along with Rick Gerson, a hedge-fund manager, and Kirill Dmitriev, the head of a Russian sovereign fund. Congress suspects they were attempting to establish a back channel to communicate with the Russian government.It's unclear what happened once this letter got to the US attorney's office. Sometimes letters like this get shrugged off because they seem like partisan witch hunts (but this one was signed by both parties) or because they don't actually detail a crime (lying to Congress is undoubtedly a crime). So where's the action? The American people need to see it.The Trump administration has been a test of this country's faith in the rule of law from the beginning. Trump promised to drain the swamp, but there are few things swampier than getting to lie to Congress just because you're the president's donor or campaign manager. I guess — to borrow a turn of phrase from the man himself — if you're the president's son, "they let you do it." <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/linette-lopez">— Linette Lopez</a><div type="image" title="Screen Shot 2020 08 19 at 12.42.24 PM" height="1433" width="2866" msid="77641592" hostid="261"></div>DNC night 2 was a much better show, even if somewhat misleadingI'm not saying the <keyword id="805524" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Democratic-National-Convention">Democratic National Convention</keyword>'s producers might have read <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dnc-night-one-joe-biden-eva-longoria-democratic-national-convention-2020-8">my column yesterday</a>; I'm just saying they took my advice.Out were the squirm-inducing minutelong interviews with "just regular folks"; in were more speeches and more face time with luminaries of the party's past and present.The most effective bit of programming was unquestionably the roll call. Once an interminable episode of mostly anonymous delegates holding pole-shaped placards bearing their state's name on the cramped floor of a basketball arena, the coronavirus created an opportunity for each state (and territory) to have its moment in the spotlight.Roll call kicked off with Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell placing her delegation's vote for Biden with Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge — the site of the civil-rights march led by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 — in the background. Instant stars were created by Rhode Island's <a href="https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1295918471600103424">calamari-touting</a> delegate and <a href="https://twitter.com/ScarletAvengers/status/1295904540240347143">the Louisiana kid</a> holding up a poster of Joe Biden's aviator sunglasses. Matthew Shepard's parents representing the Wyoming delegation and <a href="https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/politics/khizr-khan-represents-virginia-in-roll-call-dnc-night-2-still-wants-trump-to-read-constitution/65-006f47c0-10e5-484f-8460-751440d3419b">Khizr Khan representing Virginia</a> were also strikingly powerful moments.The parade of disaffected Republicans for Biden also continued last night, with ringing endorsements (and denunciations of Trump) from Chuck Hagel, Colin Powell, and Cindy McCain. Like night 1, a lot of this was directed toward a part of the electorate that doesn't like Trump but is not all that enthused about a future Democratic Party represented by young socialists such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.AOC might have gotten only 90 seconds to speak, where she seconded the nomination of Sen. Bernie Sanders to lead into the roll call vote, but she and her cohort would have far more influence on a Biden administration than the mostly retired Republicans who vouched for their pal Joe. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/anthony-l-fisher">— Anthony Fisher</a><div type="image" title="Screen Shot 2020 08 19 at 12.35.31 PM" height="1431" width="2862" msid="77641597" hostid="261"></div>The Democratic roll call was the most inspiring moment of the entire campaign.Fisher, I don't think you're appreciating the roll call enough. It was absolutely magnificent, the most inspiring thing on television this entire campaign! It was the road trip we all dream of making in the pandemic, a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/dnc-roll-call.html">"Magic School Bus" tour</a> of the whole nation, its landscapes, its history, its present, and its people.We began on the Edmund Pettus Bridge celebrating Rep. John Lewis, saw the shores of the Pacific with a deliriously excited Rep. Barbara Lee, commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment with a young college student in the Tennessee hotel where its passage was announced, shared the sorrow and determination of Matthew Shepard's parents in Casper, Wyoming, reveled in the "Fight Club" vibe of the Ohio union organizer Josh Abernathy, basked in the sunshine of the US Virgin Islands, visited New Mexico's Pueblo of Sandia with tribe member Derrick Lente, and reveled in the unapologetic calamari hawking of the Rhode Islanders.We learned about the issues that are preoccupying Americans in different parts of the country, from the Colorado family, New York nurse, and Nebraska meat-packer struggling with COVID-19, to the Iowans recovering from one of the worst storms in state history, to the Florida father hoping to stop the gun violence that took his child's life at Parkland, to the Gold Star father mourning the racist violence that besieged his city of Charlottesville, Virginia, to the Utah mayor affirming her state's excellent experience with voting by mail.This roll call was not merely a mild improvement on the shouty convention-hall roll calls of the past. It is a genuinely brilliant new tradition that must — and will — become the standard.At a time when we're atomized, narrowly restricted to our homes, limited in our social interactions, it showed us America at its most expansive and wonderful, our variety of landscapes and skies, the multiplicity of issues that concern us, the depth of our history (the 19th amendment, the Tulsa race massacre, and the civil-rights movement were just a few of the capsule reminders). And most of all, it showed us the variety of us. Young and old, immigrant and native-born, Indigenous, Black, white, Hispanic, island people, mountain people, and plains people.It was a Walt Whitman poem come to life. We are large. We contain multitudes. —DP<div type="image" title="GettyImages-laura-loomer" height="489" width="978" msid="77641600" hostid="261"></div>Another fringe candidate won a GOP primary, and Trump congratulated herLaura Loomer — a 27-year-old Islamophobic internet personality who's been barred from all the major social-media platforms, as well as from Uber, Lyft, GoFundMe, and Venmo — just won the GOP primary in Florida's 21st Congressional District. Loomer is well-known in alt-right and ultranationalist internet cadres, but she's never been able to achieve the mainstream attention she so desperately seeks. She's essentially a B-list <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59n99q/milo-yiannopoulos-says-hes-broke">Milo Yiannopoulos</a>.She tried, and failed, to get arrested at Twitter headquarters <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lara-loomer-chained-herself-twitter-hq-after-banned-2018-11">when she handcuffed herself to the front door</a> after being barred. She <a href="https://splinternews.com/laura-loomer-is-at-it-again-1831755717">trespassed on Nancy Pelosi's</a> property as an act of protest, again failing to get arrested. She did manage to get arrested in 2017 <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpkins-cry-free-speech-and-stab-it-in-the-back">when she disrupted a Shakespeare in the Park production</a> of "Julius Caesar," using the same shutdown-of-speech tactics she claims to oppose when acted out by the progressive left.Loomer is such an obnoxious exhibitionist that <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-muslim-activist-laura-loomer-banned-from-cpac-after-harassing-reporters">she was barred in 2019 by the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)</a> — about as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cpac-2020-trump-worship-hating-socialism-bullied-victim-left-2020-2">Trump-friendly a venue</a> as you're likely to find — for harassing reporters. Unlike the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-marjorie-taylor-greene-georgia-bio-age-beliefs-qanon-2020-8">QAnon-supporting Marjorie Greene</a>, Loomer has almost no chance of winning the heavily Democratic district (which happens to include Mar-a-Lago, making President Trump and first lady Melania Trump constituents). The GOP primary was a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-candidates-florida-21st-congressional-district-trump/2020/08/16/a8d710b8-de2d-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html">rogue's gallery of fringe candidates</a> with no support from the national party.But <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1295932138290917376">Trump congratulated Loomer on her primary win</a> anyway. Despite Loomer being an inconsequential candidate, she represents a significant and vocal portion of the Trump base, and he dares not to offend it this close to Election Day. — AF<h2>BUSINESS &amp; ECONOMY</h2><div type="image" title="mike Lindell MyPillow my pillow " height="529" width="1057" msid="77641604" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lindell-founder-ceo-mypillow-donald-trump-ally-2020-8">MyPillow CEO has a stake in the company that developed the COVID-19 "cure" Oleandrin.</a> Trump ally Mike Lindell has been pushing to get FDA approval for the unproven remedy, and now the president says the feds will "take a look at it."<a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/apple-stock-price-market-cap-valuation-hits-2-trillion-milestone-2020-8-1029517431">Apple becomes the first US-listed company to hit a $2 trillion market cap.</a> Aramco, a Saudi oil giant, briefly hit $2 trillion in December.<h2>LIFE</h2><div type="image" title="tiger king" height="797" width="1594" msid="77641607" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-king-zoo-closed-after-animal-exhibition-license-pulled-2020-8">The USDA shut down the "Tiger King" zoo in Oklahoma.</a> Federal officials suspended the animal-exhibition license of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park because of animal-welfare violations.<a href="https://www.insider.com/swiss-town-covered-in-chocolate-snow-lindt-factory-malfunction-olten-2020-8">A gentle chocolate snow fell on a Swiss town.</a> A ventilation malfunction at the local Lindt factory released a cocoa cloud that dusted houses nearby.<h2>THE BIG 3*</h2><div type="image" title="Mike Tyson" height="1000" width="2000" msid="77641611" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://www.insider.com/roy-jones-jr-is-threatening-to-cancel-mike-tyson-exhibition-2020-8">Roy Jones Jr. is threatening to withdraw from Mike Tyson fight.</a> Jones is annoyed that promoters pushed back the fight from September to November to increase the audience and wants compensation for the two-month delay. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/long-term-coronavirus-immunity-t-cells-2020-8">Everyone infected with the coronavirus develops immunity, according to a new study.</a> The study finds that even people with mild or asymptomatic COVID cases develop immunity thanks to virus-fighting T cells.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/revealed-donald-trump-letters-to-vladimir-putin-miss-universe-russia-2020-8">"I'm a big fan of yours."</a> Trump's fawning letters to Putin were included in the Senate Intelligence Committee report showing the connections between his campaign and the Russians. *The most popular stories on Insider today.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container click-to-enlarge"><div class="image"><a title_source="GLG" title_caption="In the atrium of Gerson Lehrman Group's New York office, employees take advantage of a skylight and a variety of comfy seats." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53ee0637eab8eacd057a82c4-960/glg%20atrium.jpg"></a>GLGIn the atrium of Gerson Lehrman Group's New York office, employees take advantage of a skylight and a variety of comfy seats.</div></div>Imagine coming to the office every day and not having your own desk. There's no place to call your own, no pictures of your family lining your cubicle, and none of the status that comes with a plush corner office. That's what the 250 employees at the New York office of the Gerson Lehrman Group, a consulting firm that connects business executives with relevant experts, experienced in late June when the company moved into its new space at 60 East 42nd Street. Instead of a desk, workers were given a locker, a laptop, and a license to roam across a variety of office landscapes ranging from conference rooms, to couches, to the company's own in-house coffee bar. The two-floor, 64,000-square foot office is the largest U.S. implementation of activity-based working, a Dutch-born theory that posits office workers are happiest and most productive in an environment that allows them to utilize a variety of different spaces based on the task they are performing. For instance, an employee might hash out plans for a group project with coworkers at a table in the office atrium before moving to a telephone-booth sized conference room to concentrate on his or her individual portion of the project.
Two weeks ago, I visited the new GLG office to get a sense of what the experience has been like for the company's employees and to find out what they did with all of the knick-knacks they'd been keeping on their desks.
<div class="KonaFilter image-container click-to-enlarge"><div class="image"><a title_source="Vimeo/GLG" title_caption="An employee works on a couch on GLG's second floor." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53ee160ceab8ea09487a82c4-960/screen%20shot%202014-07-31%20at%205.03.09%20pm.png"></a>Vimeo/GLGAn employee works on a couch on GLG's second floor.</div></div>
GLG decided to build its new office based on the principles of activity-based working about 18 months prior to the move from its old office on Third Avenue, a more traditional work setting with cubicles and offices.
The goal, said GLG head of public affairs Richard Socarides, is to increase collaboration among employees and to have a space better suited for hosting clients.
Since one of the things the company is most proud of is bringing together its clients to share knowledge with one another, Socarides said it didn't make sense that these meetings were being held at restaurants instead of GLG's offices.
So far, it seems employees are mostly happy about the shift.
Mike Martin, a systems analyst, spoke glowingly of the new format. He usually likes to spend his mornings seated at the coffee bar, where he keeps a set of spare parts and fixes his coworkers' laptops while they grab a cappuccino.
Later, he migrates to different parts of the office depending on whom he is working with on a given project and how intensely he needs to focus.
"I definitely find that moving around helps me get work done," Martin said. "I feel like I'm a dynamic person who can work in a loud environment, but there are definitely days where you want to duck off into a telephone booth and sort of dive into the task at hand."
<div class="KonaFilter image-container click-to-enlarge"><div class="image"><a title_source="Gerson Lerhman Group" title_caption="GLG's coffee bar, manned by a full-time barista, is a popular meeting spot." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53ee07286da811f279ec6f84-960/glg%20kitchen%20&amp;%20coffee%20bar.jpg"></a>Gerson Lerhman GroupGLG's coffee bar, manned by a full-time barista, is a popular meeting spot.</div></div>
Of course, the transition took time for some employees, even though GLG spent great deal of time preparing them beforehand. Employees had several concerns when they were first told about the company's plans for the new office, primarily based on all of the things that made the office "theirs." At one of several town hall meetings held to discuss the changes, one worker summed things up succinctly by asking, "If I have a plant, where am I going to put it?"
Clive Wilkinson, the architect behind the new office, said that the lack of space for personal artifacts is a feature, not a flaw, of activity-based working. To him, the personalization of the cubicle came as a counterweight against ugly, sterile offices that people have hated for years.
If employees are given a bright space to work in with a variety of office environments, he reasons, people will be fine limiting their decorations to a laptop screensaver and digitizing their paper files. As a byproduct, the system reduces office clutter.
Other personal items can be stored in employees' individual lockers, which are located in clusters around the office based on the department each employee belongs to. The areas around the lockers are known as "neighborhoods."
"We try to kind of instill the sense that you used to own a desk, but now you own the whole office," Wilkinson said. "The workplace historically has been basically dreadful, and we want to make a contribution to turning things into a positive experience, rather than a negative one."
<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="Vimeo/GLG" title_caption="Each neighborhood is outfitted with a handful of different work structures, including these popular meeting cubes." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53ee0ea5ecad044e1772f809-960/screen shot 2014-07-31 at 5.00.52 pm.png"></a><a href="http://vimeo.com/100165888">Vimeo/GLG</a>Each neighborhood is outfitted with a handful of different work structures, including these popular meeting cubes.</div></div></div>
Wilkinson, an Australian architect who also designed Google's corporate headquarters in California, is one of the pioneers of activity-based working.
In 2009, he built an activity-based space for the 3,000 employees of Macquarie Bank's Sydney office, winning himself a bucket full of awards and convincing several other firms with big Australian offices to implement similar layout plans.
According to Wilkinson, there are now 5 million square feet of Australian banking offices modeled on ABW, a set-up he predicts will soon be the world's dominant mode of office work, even in the United States.
"We love it because we honestly think this is the future," Wilkinson said. "This way of working is how people will work in 20 years time, so why not do it now and get ahead of your competition?"
<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="Vimeo/GLG" title_caption="The conference rooms at GLG are named after famous thinkers, like the ancient Greek doctor Hippocrates." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53ee111869bedd0274d39541-960/screen shot 2014-07-31 at 5.04.10 pm.png"></a><a href="http://vimeo.com/100165888">Vimeo/GLG</a>The conference rooms at GLG are named after famous thinkers, like the ancient Greek doctor Hippocrates.</div></div></div>
So far, human resources associate Megan Crouch said the single biggest complaint she's heard about the new office has come from women who don't know where to put the extra pairs of shoes they change in and out of during the day.
As a fix, the women in her neighborhood have commandeered a nearby closet and are storing their footwear there.
Meanwhile, Wilkinson said his biggest concern when the office opened was that employees would fall into the habit of sitting in the same place every day.
Sure enough, two women I spoke with told me that they and several colleagues swap spots, but generally congregate at the same six-person table near their lockers. Unless, of course, a newcomer pushes them out of one of the neighborhood's precious standing desks and forces them to find a spot elsewhere.
<div class="KonaFilter image-container click-to-enlarge"><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Vimeo/GLG" title_caption="Employees looking for a more traditional desk setting can plug their laptops into the monitors seen here." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/53ee0b6969bedd8562d3953f-960/screen%20shot%202014-07-31%20at%205.02.02%20pm.png"></a><a href="http://vimeo.com/100165888">Vimeo/GLG</a>Employees looking for a more traditional desk setting can plug their laptops into the monitors seen here.</div></div>
This competition for prime real estate is relatively rare at GLG, where the office fits 350 people, 100 more than the number of GLG employees working in New York - and about 125 more than are typically in the office on any given day. 
The open space allows employees extreme flexibility, which GLG vice president Mukesh Chaudhary took advantage of the day before my visit in July. He told me that simply taking his laptop from the first floor to the second made his work more productive.
In doing so, he met coworkers he'd never spoken to before and was able to look at the project he was working on in a different, more creative way.
"The new space is awesome," Chaudhary said. "We had to change the way we do things, but I think that overall it has made us more efficient."
Some of the images in this story were taken as screenshots from a video GLG made about the office. You can watch it in full <a href="http://vimeo.com/100165888">here</a>.

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