The Garage is a program at Microsoft that began in 2009 to help teams experiment with new projects and get early customer feedback. It has supported over 75 teams. The Garage locations are designed by the Real Estate and Facilities team to inspire engineers and foster collaboration. Ideal Garage locations promote an open culture where employees can take risks and learn from failures.

1. RE&F
Real
Estate
and
Facilities
+
The
Garage

2. The Garage began in 2009

3. The Garage has helped 75+ teams across company get
experimental projects out to customers for feedback

4. Meet Jeff Ramos: The leader of The Garage

5. Development
of new Garage
spaces has
truly been a
team effort
RE&F listens to the vision of the garage, hears business goals, then
thinks about how to best represent those outcomes in architecture,
design, and facilities

6. What makes an ideal Garage location?

7. "An engineer that's motivated is
easily 10 times more impactful
than one that's not. It's a simple
fact. My goal is to create an
environment that inspires our
engineers—and that makes
Microsoft the best place to work
and build the​ir careers.“ - T.K.
Rengariajan ("Ranga") (Corporate
Vice President of Engineering for
Microsoft)

8. "We want to foster a culture that's open, transparent, collaborative,
without boundaries—where employees are rewarded, not penalized,
for thinking differently—and where failure is viewed as an
opportunity to learn," - Ranga.

9. Benefits of Garage locations…

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There are more Garage locations in progress!