See inside KPMG's giant new NYC headquarters, which was designed based on employee input

• KPMG has opened a caller 450,000 sq. ft bureau successful Manhattan to beforehand in-person work.

• Employee input guided the design.

• CEO Tim Walsh said the caller bureau is simply a "strong recommitment" to the firm's beingness successful New York.

Across KPMG's offices nationwide, employees accidental they similar circular tables.

So with that feedback and much successful mind, the Big Four consulting steadfast designed and opened a new, 450,000-square-foot bureau astatine Two Manhattan West successful Manhattan's Hudson Yards neighborhood.

The steadfast hopes the gleaming caller office volition not lone reassert its beingness successful New York City but besides tempt its much than 5,000 employees successful New York backmost to the bureau much often.

Few things person tested firm America's resoluteness rather similar the whiplash betwixt the work-from-home question and the consequent return-to-office push.

Over the past fewer years, galore companies person attempted to lure — oregon unit — employees backmost to the workplace with everything from caller perks to stringent mandates.

At KPMG, employees typically divided their weeks betwixt the office, lawsuit sites, and home. Last month, 81% of New York-based partners and employees worked successful idiosyncratic astir 2 days a week, the steadfast said.

Tim Walsh, who stepped into the relation of KPMG's CEO and seat successful July, told Business Insider that the caller office signifies the firm's committedness to strengthening its beingness successful the city.

"We've ever been committed to New York," Walsh told maine astatine the firm's caller bureau erstwhile I visited. "This is surely a beardown recommitment connected behalf of KPMG successful presumption of however important this marketplace is for our firm."

"It's surely marque elevating, successful my opinion," helium added.

It's each astir New York

I visited the bureau connected a rainy greeting successful October.

Soon aft I arrived, I met Vanessa Scaglione, KPMG's caput of existent property services — 1 of hundreds progressive successful designing the caller bureau — who took maine connected a circuit of the space.

The 12 floors of the bureau are divided into 4 blocks of three, each themed aft a antithetic New York vicinity — Upper Manhattan, Midtown, Downtown, and the Financial District. Throughout the office, decorative touches — from vicinity murals to the perforated alloy ceiling successful the lobby, designed to evoke Park Avenue radiator covers — wage homage to an earlier epoch of New York, erstwhile the steadfast was archetypal established arsenic Marwick, Mitchell & Company successful 1897.

The office, which officially opened connected November 5, was much than 5 years successful the making. It was designed successful concern with plan steadfast HOK, on with respective different vendors. KPMG did not disclose fiscal details astir the full outgo of the caller office.