OTTAWA - Shopify Inc. is bulking up its presence and workforce on Canada’s west coast with a plan to hire 1,000 people in Vancouver and open its first permanent office there. They will work from a four-floor, 6,500-square metre space set to open at Four Bentall Centre in downtown Vancouver by late 2020. “We feel we have the capacity and the brand name and the amount of product work to do that.”Thornton and other Vancouver Shopify workers currently work from a WeWork space across the street from Four Bentall Centre. Last year, the business opened a new office in Toronto at the King and Portland Centre, steps away from the company’s first office in Canada’s largest city. The company still has a headquarters in Ottawa, an office in Montreal and a brick-and-mortar store in L.A. that hosts workshops, talks and other events aimed at solving the biggest challenges Shopify merchants face.

Source: thestar January 28, 2020 17:02 UTC