X will soon close its longtime San Francisco office and move employees to offices elsewhere in the Bay Area, according to an email from CEO Linda Yaccarino from The New York Times. Yaccarino’s note comes after Elon Musk’s threat to move X’s headquarters to Austin, Texas. The closure will occur over the next few weeks and employees will work out of a shared engineering space in Palo Alto and other locations in San Jose. Musk has had a tumultuous relationship with San Francisco since taking over Twitter, banning remote work and ordering employees back to the office. Despite Musk’s previous vow to keep the headquarters in San Francisco, there were signs X may leave after the landlord looked to sublease much of the headquarters. X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
