Oracle is the latest tech organization to move its central command out of California. The organization said on Friday it’s moving its central command from the Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas.
“Oracle is implementing a more flexible employee work location policy and has changed its Corporate Headquarters from Redwood City, California to Austin, Texas. We believe these moves best position Oracle for growth and provide our personnel with more flexibility about where and how they work,” a spokesperson confirmed to CNBC.
Bloomberg first detailed the move.
A majority of representatives can pick their office area, or keep on telecommuting low maintenance or full time, the organization said.
“In addition, we will continue to support major hubs for Oracle around the world, including those in the United States such as Redwood City, Austin, Santa Monica, Seattle, Denver, Orlando and Burlington, among others, and we expect to add other locations over time,” Oracle said. “By implementing a more modern approach to work, we expect to further improve our employees’ quality of life and quality of output.”
Oracle is one of Silicon Valley’s more established examples of overcoming adversity, established in Santa Clara in 1977. It moved into its present base camp in 1989. A few of the structures on its grounds there are developed looking like a squat chamber, which is the exemplary image in PC frameworks plan for an information base, the item on which Oracle fabricated its domain.
The Covid pandemic has given various tech organizations and conspicuous Silicon Valley calculates a reason to leave California. Hewlett Packard Enterprise declared recently that it will move its base camp from San Jose, California, to Houston, Texas. Information examination programming organization Palantir Technologies likewise moved its central command to Denver, Colorado from Palo Alto, California, recently.
Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk additionally affirmed for the current week that he moved to Texas, however his organizations actually keep up their significant tasks in California. Larry Ellison, Oracle’s fellow benefactor and administrator, serves on Tesla’s board. Ellison has a longstanding companionship with Michael Dell, whose PC organization was established and remains settled in the Austin region.