
Wild North Flowers
Guests at the open house were encouraged to take a customized bouquet of flowers home with them.
PayPal Canada tables
PayPal's recently opened a new office inside the MaRS Discovery District.
Double Double sign
Even the boardrooms are uniquely Canadian.
PayPal tables two
More and more companies are opening co-working spaces to facilitate collaboration.
PayPal graffiti wall
The walls of the office are covered with graffiti-style art and bold maple leaves.
PayPal standing desks
The work space sits next to a full-wall window that overlooks the University of Toronto.
Lockers
Employees can store their belongings in
Lockers 2
Behind the breakfast bar, there was a row of lockers with names scribbled across them in erasable marker.
PayPal Canada Jersey
The employees even get their own jerseys.
PayPal Canada recently opened a new office inside the MaRS Discovery District alongside other major tech firms such as Facebook, Airbnb, Etsy and Kik. To commemorate the opening, the payments corporation held an open house for media to get a first glimpse at the new space.
“We’ve been talking about how a space like this creates innovation, how a space like this creates collaboration to think differently about that space,” said Paul Parisi, the General Manager of PayPal Canada.
Looking around the newly minted office, it’s clear that it embodies all the latest trends in startup spaces. Some of these trends include the open-concept, co-working style, graffiti on the walls, and bicycles that are available for employee use.
Several startups have set up shop around the office to help feed visiting media, and PayPal has even hired a pop up flower shop where visitors can create their own bouquet arrangements.
Check out our photographs of PayPal’s new office space above.