“We didn't know how much square footage we needed or what the mix of workspaces would look like. JLL helped us envision the future. We couldn't have gotten to this point without JLL.”

—Ken Stuart, VP, Real Estate & Workplace, Take-Two*

- *Zynga is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

First, the JLL team toured Zynga’s current 200,000-square-foot headquarters office to understand workflows and space needs. Using JLL’s data and predictive analytics tools, the team forecast Zynga’s future office headcounts in the hybrid working model.

With a better understanding of Zynga’s space needs, JLL used location analytics to uncover several potential locations that offered better employee commute times, as well as neighborhood restaurants and coffee shops, all at a lower cost. 

Ultimately, Zynga decided to relocate from San Francisco to San Mateo, where it leased all four floors of a 60,000-square-foot building. Zynga secured not only a year of free rent, but also generous concessions, prominent exterior signage, and a tenant improvement allowance far above pre-pandemic levels.

Today, Zynga’s headquarters serve as the literal and figurative blueprint for its new global Connected Work model being rolled out in other Zynga locations, including Austin, Toronto, Bangalore and London.

Zynga never stops asking what its players will thank them for. That question serves as the foundation of its culture. Now, Zynga can thank its employees by providing them with a workplace that inspires excellence.

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