OAKLAND — Twitter has scrapped plans to open a downtown Oakland workplace and can slash its footprint in San Francisco and several other different cities, in addition to utterly exit different cities, the social media big stated Wednesday.
In 2021, Twitter sketched out plans to lease a big chunk of workplace house in downtown Oakland, saying on the time that the East Bay location can be a mannequin for the corporate’s rising hybrid office mannequin.
Now, Twitter is outlining house cutbacks in a minimum of a dozen areas, together with San Francisco and the East Bay.
“We may also now not transfer ahead with plans to open an workplace in Oakland,” a Twitter spokesperson stated Wednesday in feedback emailed to this information group.
Twitter had beforehand agreed to lease 66,000 sq. toes at 1330 Broadway in downtown Oakland.
The downtown Oakland workplace would have been massive sufficient to accommodate 330 Twitter staff.
“We're evaluating our world workplace portfolio and re-sizing sure areas primarily based on utilization,” the Twitter spokesperson acknowledged. “We’ve confirmed we will function our enterprise efficiently with a distributed workforce over time, and stay dedicated to our staff, our prospects, and the markets we serve.”