Update (January 12, 4:40 pm): This article was updated to include additional information from a Bloomberg report and a statement from CapitaLand.
Employees at Twitter‘s office in Singapore, which serves as the US firm’s Asia-Pacific headquarters, were reportedly being told to vacate the premises.
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Casey Newton, who runs tech-focused platform Platformer, tweeted that Twitter workers were escorted out by the landlords of its 22,000 square foot office in the city-state’s central business district.
A report from Bloomberg said that local staff were previously asked to clear their desks by January 11 and work from their respective homes from today until further notice.
A CapitaLand spokesperson, however, told Tech in Asia that Twitter remains a tenant of CapitaGreen but did not provide further details.
The Elon Musk-led company set up shop in Singapore in 2013. Twitter moved into a larger office in 2015, which it dubbed as its base in the Asia Pacific. In 2022, the company announced plans to further expand its Singapore presence by doubling its engineer headcount to over 100 by this year.
Editing by Thu Huong Le and Eileen C. Ang
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