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I wonder where Uber folks went. They didn't do layoffs in that scale, AFAIK. Have they just shifted to remote? Or moved to some other areas?
by flakiness 3y ago
I wonder where Uber folks went. They didn't do layoffs in that scale, AFAIK. Have they just shifted to remote? Or moved to some other areas?
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- mikeyouse 3y agoTheir HQ was designed / built when it looked like they would grow forever and before the pandemic encouraged a lot of 'hybrid' options. The complex is (afaik) still 3/4 Uber, 1/4 OpenAI after this - it was nearly 1 million sq ft of office space.
- bobthepanda 3y agoFamously big towers are an indicator that a company or economy is about to slow down hard, since they only get financed during frothy market conditions. The big poster child for this is Sears opening the biggest office tower in the world at the time.
- mips_r4300i 3y agoIt seems to be an indicator for sure. A company that spares no expense on its "ultimate headquarters". Sprint did that in the dotcom days here with there world headquarters. Looked like a giant prison. It quickly was subleased. Counterpoints: Apple so far.
- bobthepanda 3y agoFWIW Apple Park is only half of the size of the Willis (nee Sears) tower.
- lhorie 3y agoUber has four office buildings in SF mission bay. One was never used, the other 3 were underutilized, so employees are going to be moved/consolidated into 2. These buildings also have street-front retail lease spaces, so presumably by having more people coming into the area, that increases foot traffic for those spaces as well.