Steal an Employee Office Expansion: How to Buy Floors and What Each Stage Adds
How to expand your office in Steal an Employee: buy upgrades through the computer starting at $500, climb to the 1.4 billion level-six floor, and see what each stage adds — plus why desk purchases are a separate system.
Quick answer
Office expansion in Steal an Employee is bought through the in-game computer's Upgrade option. The first purchase costs $500 and turns the starting setup into an office; later expansions continue as additional purchases made in the same place, not through a different menu.
- Two prices are shown in recorded play: $500 for the first upgrade and 1.4 billion for the level-six floor, which adds an elevator.
- New floors add desk space that you fill with separately purchased desks — expansion and desk upgrades are not the same system.
- The recorded chain ends at a darkened, security-guarded rooftop, with the tower shown fully maxed out and nothing left to buy.
Expansion stages shown in play
Recorded gameplay shows the chain climbing from the first office to a rooftop finish. Only two prices appear anywhere along the way — the $500 first upgrade and the 1.4 billion level-six floor — so every other stage's cost is left unstated here:
Comparison
| Expansion Checkpoint | What The Footage Shows | Cost Shown |
|---|---|---|
| Second floor | The place is upgraded with a second floor; the narration calls it 'starting to look fancy' and praises the views from the second floor. | Not shown |
| Level 3 to level 4 | After placing a level-three employee, the narration flags 'level four is next' and buys the next floor. | Not shown |
| Level 4 to level 5 (roof) | The purchase sequence includes a 'Purchase roof upgrade' step, and the climb continues upward. | Not shown |
| Level 6 | An explicit price appears during the climb; this stage adds an elevator to reach the upper floors. | 1.4 billion |
| Top floor / rooftop | A final 'Floor purchased'; the screen darkens and rooftop security guards appear with a large dollar sign at the top. | Not shown |
Two caveats on that sequence. The stage names come from the footage's own narration, which mixes "second floor," "level four," "floor six," and "level seven" without a clean numbering scheme, so read it as the order shown on screen rather than a strict one-through-seven ladder. And cash is the only requirement the footage shows for any purchase — no level gates, speed thresholds, or other prerequisites appear. Prices and stage order can change with updates, so recheck them in-game after a patch.
What each expansion changes
New floors translate directly into more workstation space. Immediately after a floor purchase, the footage notes the new level can take desks ("Floor purchased. Oh, okay. Now, we can get the desks."), and employees get assigned to specific floors — one is sent to level three, and near the end of the run another is sent to floor six. No fixed desks-per-floor or employees-per-floor number is ever shown, so plan capacity around buying desks yourself rather than a set count per level.
Beyond floor space, specific stages bring visible changes: one mid-game office upgrade reskins the interior in gold ("We've got the gold sidebars. Everything's made out of gold as well."), the late-chain elevator stage makes the upper floors reachable, and the rooftop stage posts security guards at the top.
Maximum expansion: the fully maxed tower
The chain has a documented end point. After the final "Floor purchased" — the darkened rooftop level guarded by security and topped with a big dollar sign — the player checks the floors and the shop for anything left to buy and concludes: "It is fully maxed out. There's nothing else we could buy." The highest staffed floor shown is floor six, sitting beneath the security-guard roof; that state is the documented maximum expansion.
Office expansion is not the desk system
Expansion adds building space; desks are a separate, additional purchase. Right after buying the second floor, the player weighs desk upgrades as their own expense and declines them ("Okay, can we also upgrade the desks? Nah, that's too expensive."), then fills the new floors by buying individual desks ("just get a couple more desks"). Earlier gameplay treats an extra desk the same way, as a standalone purchase ("let's get extra desk, might as well"). The floor–elevator–roof progression covered on this page is base-size growth; desk purchases and desk upgrades follow their own path and are not part of this upgrade chain.