X will quickly shut its longtime San Francisco workplace and transfer workers to workplaces elsewhere within the Bay Space, in accordance with an e mail from CEO Linda Yaccarino The New York Occasions. Yaccarino’s notice to workers comes a number of weeks after Elon Musk threatened to maneuver X’s headquarters out and into Austin, Texas.
Yaccarino’s notice, nonetheless, doesn’t appear to say Texas. In response to The New York Occasions, she instructed workers the closure will occur over the “subsequent few weeks” and that workers will work out of “a shared engineering area in Palo Alto” that’s additionally utilized by xAI, in addition to different “places in San Jose.”
Twitter, and now X, has had a rocky relationship with its house base since Musk’s takeover of the corporate. Musk workers from working remotely shortly after taking up the corporate in 2022, and ordered many Twitter staff again to the workplace within the mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco.
He later ran afoul of the town’s Division of Constructing Inspection for putting in a on high of the constructing, and for reportedly changing workplace area into for workers to sleep in. The corporate’s landlord had additionally sued X over unpaid lease, The San Francisco Chronicle earlier this yr. The lawsuit was later dismissed.
Regardless of Musk’s frequent complaints about San Francisco and its elected leaders, he had beforehand vowed to maintain the corporate’s headquarters within the metropolis. “Many have provided wealthy incentives for X (fka Twitter) to maneuver its HQ out of San Francisco,” Musk final yr.
“Furthermore, the town is in a doom spiral with one firm after one other left or leaving. Subsequently, they count on X will transfer too. We is not going to. You solely know who your actual associates are when the chips are down. San Francisco, stunning San Francisco, although others forsake you, we’ll at all times be your good friend.”
However, even earlier than Musk’s latest posts about shifting to Austin, there have been different indicators X could also be on the brink of go away in spite of everything. The San Francisco Chronicle in July that X’s landlord was trying to sublease a lot of the corporate’s 800,000 square-foot headquarters.
X didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
