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    Pinterest pays $89.5 million to cancel lease for new San Francisco offices.

    Pinterest canceled its lease for the San Francisco high-rise project 88 Bluxome, seen here in an artist's rendering. Citing coronavirus-inspired workforce changes, Pinterest will pay $89.5 million to cancel a lease on new San Francisco offices.

    “As we analyze how our workplace will change in a post-COVID world, we are specifically rethinking where future employees could be based,” said Todd Morgenfeld, head of business operations, in a company press release.

    https://www.sfgate.com/business/…

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    • That's a shitload of money to pay NOT to do something.BusterBoy
    • Amazing how much money is tied up in fucking up image search results in Google..Nairn
    • this is the real shit right here. you think the housing landlords are scum. these property groups own entire cities and have politicians in their back pockets.kingsteven
    • Pay %89.5 million to cancel a lease, but can't be arsed to make the filters and recommendation algorithms at the heart of their business not total garbage.i_monk
    • Just installed a browser add-on called 'unpinterested' which nixes Pinterest results from Google Images searches (just adds "!-site:pinterest.*" to searches)Nairn
    • SF used to be cool as fuck before the .com days.moldero
    • bunch of assholes nowmoldero
    • Now's the turn for somewhere poorer to be cool.Nairn
    • @mold - The thing is - that'd be true for each gen that came before you too. Same here in LDN. It's a shadow of its former self.. to me. To young'uns? Opposite.Nairn
    • I remember when I used to work in Camden, lamenting its change over 'my tenure'. Of course, the same was said by older people before I ever came along *shrugsNairn
    • That pretty inept thing called Pinterest makes shitloads of money
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    • @Nairn, Berlin was the same way. Now it's just a giant, gentrified black hole of not cool.Continuity
    • who wants to work in a big boring same same looking 'star architect' office building anyway?sandpipe
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