According to an email from CEO Linda Yaccarino, X will soon close its longtime office in San Francisco and relocate its employees to other offices in the Bay Area. The New York Times. Yaccarino’s memo to employees comes just weeks after Elon Musk threatened to move X’s headquarters. and to Austin, Texas.
Yaccarino’s note does not mention Texas. according to The New York Timeshe told employees that the shutdown would take place over the “next few weeks” and that employees would work from a “shared engineering space in Palo Alto” also used by xAI, as well as other “locations in San Jose.”
Twitter, and now X, has had a rocky relationship with its base since Musk took over the company. Musk employees stopped working remotely shortly after taking over the company in 2022 and ordered many Twitter employees to return to an office in a mid-market San Francisco neighborhood.
He then bullied the city’s Department of Building Inspections into installing it on top of the building and reportedly converted office space for the workers to sleep. The company’s landlord also sued Xi for unpaid rent. San Francisco Chronicle earlier this year. The claim was later dismissed.
Despite Musk’s frequent complaints about San Francisco and its elected leaders, he has previously vowed to keep the company’s headquarters in the city. “Many have offered rich incentives for X (Fka Twitter) to move its headquarters from San Francisco,” Musk said. last year.
“Also, the city is in a spiral of disaster where one company after another has gone or left. Therefore, they expect X to act as well. we won’t. You only know who your real friends are when the chips are down. San Francisco, beautiful San Francisco, though others leave you, we will always be your friends.”
But before Musk’s recent tweets about his move to Austin, there were other signs that X was about to go after all. San Francisco Chronicle in July X’s landlord wanted to sublease most of the company’s 800,000-square-foot headquarters.
X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
