With Elon Musk’s X relocating, here are other major tech firms to move out of San Francisco

A decade ago, the downtown area of San Francisco in California, US, was home to high-profile tech companies such as Meta, Snap, Paypal, Airbnb, and more. However, most of these firms have relinquished their office space in the city over the past few years due to the pandemic-driven shift to hybrid work as well as mass tech layoffs.

Back in 2019, an estimated total of 16 million square feet of office space in San Francisco had been leased by the top 20 biggest tech employers, according to a report by The San Francisco Standard. Now, that area has declined to just 8.3 million square feet, the report said.