Musk’s X will close its San Francisco office: reports

Social media site X will close its San Francisco office and move workers to other locations in the Bay Area, it announced internally on Monday, according to The New York Times.

Employees will be transferred to the company’s offices in Palo Alto and San Jose, CEO Linda Yaccarino said in the memo. The Palo Alto office already has employees from xAI, another company owned by Elon Musk.

“This is an important decision that affects many of you, but it is the right decision for our company in the long term,” Yaccarino wrote.

Musk previously promised to move the company’s headquarters to Texas in response to a California law that prohibits teachers from forcibly disclosing students’ gender identity. SpaceX, also owned by Musk, similarly announced it would move its California headquarters to The Lone Star State last month.

X, formerly Twitter, has been based in San Francisco since its founding in 2006. Musk purchased and renamed the company in 2022.

The headquarters building itself has made headlines since Musk took control of the company, after X allegedly missed rent payments and attempted to turn empty offices into temporary housing for traveling employees.

Last year, the company clashed with city officials over a large, glowing “X” sign on its roof, after neighbors likened it to a bright strobe light.

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