It's only a couple years old, but at JPMorgan Chase's office at Five Manhattan West the walls have already been defaced.

And it's not just the walls. Chairs and other surfaces have been scribbled all over as well. 

At the headquarters for JPMorgan's digital ambitions, this is all by design — writable surfaces are part of the effort to foment the collaboration, serendipity, and freeform thinking that run amok at Silicon Valley's most agile workplaces.

JPMorgan developers and designers...

Continue Reading Take a peek inside the Manhattan mothership of JPMorgan Chase's $10.8 billion tech blitz — an office that makes you wonder if you're actually at a bank (JPM)