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Apple's new 'spaceship' campus has one major flaw - and it hurts

Some distracted staff are walking into glass panes designed to foster collaboration

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The Apple Campus 2 in Cupertino, California. The building is designed to house some 13,000 employees. Photo: Reuters

Mark Bergen | Bloomberg
The centerpiece of Apple’s new headquarters is a massive, ring-shaped office overflowing with panes of glass, a testament to the company’s famed design-obsessed aesthetic. 

There’s been one hiccup since it opened last year: Apple employees keep smacking into the glass.

Surrounding the building, located in Cupertino, California, are 45-foot tall curved panels of safety glass. Inside are work spaces, dubbed “pods,” also made with a lot of glass. Apple staff are often glued to the iPhones they helped popularize. That’s resulted in repeated cases of distracted employees walking into the panes, according to people familiar with the incidents. 

Some staff started to stick