Inside Amazon’s Spheres, where workers chill in a rainforest

Seating areas are seen inside the Amazon.com Inc. Spheres in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. The online retailer is scheduled to unveil the spheres Monday morning following seven years of planning and construction. The glass orbs have 40,000 plants from around the world. Photographer: Mike Kane/Bloomberg

Three years ago, Amazon.com Inc's horticulturalist was giving Jeff Bezos a preview of what the company's three plant-filled spheres – the centrepiece of its US$4bil (RM15.47bil) downtown Seattle office project-would look like on opening day. 

One rendering showed the view from a 30-foot-high suspension bridge looking down on a tree. The next showed the same tree as it would look five years later, branches stretching high above the bridge to form a canopy, giving Amazonians the feeling of walking through a rainforest.