Hewlett Packard Enterprise moving headquarters from Silicon Valley
One of the Bay Area’s oldest tech companies is moving its headquarters out of Silicon Valley.
Houston will be home to the new headquarters of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. A company press release said Houston is an attractive market to recruit and retain future diverse talent and is where the company is currently constructing a state-of-the-art campus.
The company will keep the current campus in San Jose and will consolidate a number of sites in the Bay Area to this location.
“The global pandemic has forced businesses to rethink everything from remote work and collaboration to business continuity and data insight,” President and CEO Antonio Neri said in the company’s fourth-quarter earnings release.
No layoffs are associated with this move. There are almost 5,992 employees in the Bay Area, according to LinkedIn.
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