2023-04-10
SF residents and tech workers raged at city leadership — including Chesa Boudin, who's out of office ~9 months — over what they called out of control crime after fatal stabbing of Bob Lee. Data shows SF has one of lowest murder rates in U.S. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ... @susieneilson
New York Times
Bob Lee's murder in San Francisco has stirred outrage among tech leaders and could motivate the local tech community to become more involved in city politics
2023-04-09
SF residents and tech workers raged at city leadership — including Chesa Boudin, who's out of office ~9 months — over what they called out of control crime after fatal stabbing of Bob Lee. Data shows SF has one of lowest murder rates in U.S. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ... @susieneilson
New York Times
Bob Lee's murder in San Francisco has stirred outrage among tech leaders and could motivate the local tech community to become more involved in city politics
Bob Lee's death has stirred outrage among tech leaders and comes at a precarious time for the industry — and the city it calls home.
2023-03-21
Twitch layoffs affect more than 400 workers https://blog.twitch.tv/... New CEO Dan Clancy: “Like many companies, our business has been impacted by the current macroeconomic environment, and user and revenue growth has not kept pace with our expectations” https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to lay off an additional 9,000 employees, mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch, after cutting 18,000+ jobs in January 2023
Today I shared with Twitch employees that we've … Annie Palmer / CNBC : Amazon's post-Bezos experiment hasn't gone exactly as planned Bloomberg : Amazon to Cut 9,000 More Jobs, Dee...
2021-04-02
Amazon expects U.S. employees will start coming back into offices this summer, with most back by early fall. 10% of office workers already back. https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Amazon says it expects some employees to start coming back to the office as early as this summer and most of its staff to be back at the office this fall
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
2021-04-01
Amazon expects U.S. employees will start coming back into offices this summer, with most back by early fall. 10% of office workers already back. https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Amazon says it expects some employees to start coming back to the office as early as this summer and most of its staff will be back at the office this fall
- Amazon said it expects some employees to begin transitioning away from remote work this summer, with most of its staff back at the office by the fall.
2021-03-27
Facebook will reopen its Bay Area offices starting May 10 in Menlo Park at 10% capacity, with no free food and no transit. Then Fremont, Sunnyvale and on June 7, downtown SF towers: https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ... Seattle in April and Asia too.
San Francisco Chronicle
Facebook to reopen Menlo Park HQ and other Bay Area sites at 10% capacity starting May 10, and allow remote work until a month after offices reach 50% capacity
Roland Li / San Francisco Chronicle :
Readers have asked whether SF's empty offices can become housing. Here's why it's so hard: https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ... Plus, @SFjkdineen on the massive 2,900 new homes and six acres of green space proposed at Stonestown Mall: https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
San Francisco Chronicle
Facebook to reopen Menlo Park HQ and other Bay Area sites at 10% capacity starting May 10, and allow remote work until a month after offices reach 50% capacity
Roland Li / San Francisco Chronicle :
2021-02-10
Salesforce, San Francisco's largest private employer with over 9,000+ local workers, goes permanent remote/flex work. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ... Most employees will be in the office 0-3 days a week, a huge change with potentially seismic impacts for Transbay and downtown economy.
The Verge
Salesforce says “the 9-to-5 workday is dead” and that after the pandemic most staff will work a flex schedule, going into the office 1-3 days per week
‘It no longer makes sense to expect employees to work an eight-hour shift.’ — Cloud computing company Salesforce is joining …
2020-05-23
Update: Facebook spokeswoman says the Willow Glen office space decrease is not related to remote work changes and was in response to local community feedback over last three years. Project was proposed in July 2017 https://www.menlopark.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Mercury News
Facebook revises proposal for Willow Village, its 50+ acre development project in Menlo Park, to reduce square footage by 29%, from 1.75M to 1.25M square feet
Willow Village near Facebook's Menlo Park HQ undergoes sweeping changes for office space — MENLO PARK — Facebook …
2020-04-29
Uber is one of the top 5 biggest office tenants in SF and on the verge of finishing a huge headquarters next to @ChaseCenter. It already listed many of its older offices for sublease: https://sfchronicle.com/... This could have massive SF real estate waves. https://twitter.com/...
The Information
Source: Uber executives discuss cutting ~20% of its 27,000 headcount in the coming weeks; company veteran CTO Thuan Pham has resigned
Executives at Uber are discussing plans to cut around 20% of the company's employees, as it copes with a sharp decline in its ride-hailing business due …
2019-10-23
More on Facebook's $1 billion housing plan: State identified 6 cities with surplus land where Facebook could help fund housing, starting in Stockton, may include modular Facebook's $150 million investment in Bay's Future housing fund could earn a profit https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
New York Times
Facebook announces a pledge of $1B in a package of grants, loans, and land as part of a partnership with California to help build more affordable housing
SAN FRANCISCO — The technology industry's biggest companies show no signs of leaving the places they call home.