Twitter to close Seattle office amid Elon Musk’s cost cutting: Reports
Christopher Hutton
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Twitter is closing its Seattle offices and asking employees there to work from home amid Elon Musk’s efforts to cut back on costs after purchasing the company for $44 billion.
The company has stopped paying rent at its Seattle office, according to the New York Times, leading its staff to face eviction. Twitter employees were informed of the changes via email, according to Platformer, and encouraged to work from home for the time being.
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The anticipated closing of Twitter’s Seattle offices will leave the company with only its offices in New York and San Francisco in operation.
Twitter has made several cuts to its staffing and to its costs since Musk took over the company in October. This includes cutting more than 70% of staff. Twitter cut an estimated 208 jobs from its Seattle offices, according to Geekwire.
The company also worked to disconnect several servers on Christmas Eve and stopped paying rent on several facilities and services with the intent of renegotiating or ending said deals.
The server disconnects arrived days before Twitter went down for desktop users on Wednesday. Musk noted that “Significant backend server architecture changes rolled out,” adding that, “Twitter should feel faster.”
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Musk admitted to errors in his handling of Twitter’s future during a podcast interview on Saturday, but did not specify where his errors had been. Instead, he hyped up his vision for the company’s future. The billionaire, in the meantime, has focused on allowing journalists to release details about the company’s internal operations through the “Twitter Files” as well as updating its policy to allow for “reasoned questioning” of science on Twitter.