Musk’s X to close its San Francisco office: Reports

The social platform X will close its San Francisco office and move workers elsewhere in the Bay Area, it announced internally Monday, according to The New York Times.

Employees will move to company offices in Palo Alto and San Jose, CEO Linda Yaccarino said in the memo. The Palo Alto office already has staff from xAI, another Elon Musk-owned firm.

“This is an important decision that impacts many of you, but it is the right one 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 barring teachers from forcibly outing the gender identity of students. 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 headquartered in San Francisco since its founding in 2006. Musk purchased and renamed the company in 2022.

The headquarters building itself has garnered headlines since Musk took over the company after X reportedly missed rent payments and attempted to turn empty office spaces into temporary residences for traveling employees.

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