This is the problem with Apple’s new California headquarters

PETALING JAYA (Feb 19): Apple Inc’s gleaming new headquarters at Cupertino, California, is a futuristic architectural edifice of glass that come with one unfortunate flaw — staff on the campus keep walking into its many panes.

The Norman Foster-designed building is surrounded by curved panels of safety glass that are 13.7m tall, while inside are work spaces, or “pods”, that also use a lot of glass.

The repeated incidents of Apple employees — distracted by their iPhones — walking into these glass panes has prompted some staff to mark doors with Post-It notes, reported Bloomberg.

However, it is unclear how many such incidents have occurred.

When contacted by the publication, an Apple spokeswoman declined to comment, while a Silicon Valley-based spokeswoman for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration directed queries about Apple’s workplace safety record to the agency’s site, which had no reports of injuries at the tech titan’s headquarters.

Bloomberg noted that in 2011, 83-year-old Evelyn Paswall had broken her nose after walking into a glass wall at an Apple store, prompting her to sue the company, arguing that it should have put a warning on the glass.

According to a 2013 legal filing, the suit was settled without any cost to Apple.