Shopify plans to keep company office closed until 2021

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Ottawa-based Shopify will not be opening its company offices until 2021. CEO and founder Tobi Lutke said in a tweet that for now, the company is "digital by default," saying "office centricity is over." Most Shopify employees will have the option to work remotely permanently after that. The company has over 5,000 employees, as of December 2019, and it briefly became Canada's most valuable company earlier this month. It's the first major Canadian company to allow staff to work from home permanently.

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Shopify will open its first Vancouver office

Shopify plans to open its first-ever Vancouver office before the end of the year. The office will be housed in a new four-floor, 6,500-square metre workspace at the Four Bentall Centre in downtown Vancouver. Its current Vancouver-based employees work remotely or at a WeWork space across the street from where their new office will be. The Vancouver office will focus on software development as well as expanding its R&D team. The office will help support around one million online customers globally. 

Shopify plans to hire 1,000 workers for this office, but that would happen over "a couple of years." The Ottawa-based e-commerce company is looking for backend developers, data engineers, mobile developers, product designers, product managers, and web developers.  

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Shopify introduces new technologies and services for retailers at Unite conference

Today, Shopify the leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform, unveiled the latest in commerce technology at Unite, their annual conference that brings together their international developer community. Held in Toronto, Canada, Unite saw the participation of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

"We want to give a voice to all kinds of entrepreneurs around the world,” said Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke. “And that means making it easier for them to run a business and become successful. Unite is when we show the world our progress on this journey, and invite our developer and partner community to join us."

Product announcements focused on helping entrepreneurs in three key areas – selling more, working more efficiently, and making the most of the Shopify partner ecosystem.

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