Eureka Landing will house around 200 employees and manufacture dashboard subassemblies for Tesla. The project will be finished later this month and SAS will move in January, after improvements are made in the HVAC and electrical systems.
Visa issued a statement Tuesday acknowledging “a variety” of job cuts, but offered no details on the size and scope. Several Visa employees and former employees tell the San Francisco Business Times that Visa recently cut 800 to 1,500 jobs, with the company’s former headquarters campus in Foster City especially hard hit.
An Alameda Superior Court judge has ordered the CallSocket call center housed in the historic Tribune Tower at 409 13th St. in downtown Oakland to shut down by the end of the month. As the Business Times reported yesterday, that building and two others have been put on the market by a court-appointed receiver.
Los Angeles-based Faraday Future, a private electric car startup, is close to locking in an exclusive negotiating agreement with the City of Vallejo to buy a 157-acre site to build a production facility and showroom. The potential deal would be a huge economic boost for Vallejo, which emerged from bankruptcy five years ago.
San Francisco-based makeup and skincare company Bare Escentuals is moving its headquarters to New York. . . The company did not say how many employees it has in the Bay Area, but LinkedIn lists 400-plus employees in the region.
If all of California’s public pension debt were divided evenly by household, each house would need to pay $77,700, according to a new study by Stanford University.
“In recent years, the technology sector has added more than 5,000 jobs in central Indiana alone, growing at a rate more than triple the national average,” Gov. Mike Pence said in a statement.
Emeryville, California-based Jamba Inc. — which owns and franchises Jamba Juice stores — plans to relocate its headquarters to Frisco, Texas, taking 100 corporate jobs to the city north of Dallas.
Travelers in the Bay Area spent more than $33 billion in 2015, which supported 248,300 jobs for residents and provided $2.8 billion in state and local tax revenue, according to Visit California’s annual economic impact report. The Bay Area was the largest regional contributor to a statewide tourism economy that topped $122 billion, sustained 1,064,000 jobs and generated $9.9 billion in state and local tax revenue – all record figures.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously passed a new law requiring all businesses in the city with more than 20 employees to offer six weeks of fully paid parental leave to their workers.
BART is on track to award $1,000 bonuses to each of its 3,357 employees for meeting a ridership threshold, it’s second such payout in two years after paying them $3.3 million last summer, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. . . The news comes amid growing commuter frustration with the system, which was partially sidelined for much of last week after an electrical surge fried 50 cars and resulted in limited bus service on parts of the Pittsburg-Bay Point line.
Both regulators responsible for reviewing insurance mergers in California have now approved Centene Corp.’s $6.8 billion acquisition of Health Net, allowing the controversial deal to move forward.
Blue Shield of California, one of the state’s biggest health plans, has eliminated up to 460 jobs, including about 300 in Sacramento and the Central Valley, more than 70 in Southern California, and close to 80 in its San Francisco headquarters office and other Bay Area outposts.
“We’re very interested in the Dallas area for future growth and have signed a lease in the Westlake area that can accommodate up to 500 employees,” Schwab spokeswoman Sarah Bulgatz told the Dallas Business Journal.
Gov. Jerry Brown’s GO-Biz agency approved almost $44 million in 89 new tax credits Tuesday for companies that have promised to create at least 7,000 new jobs in California, a new report says. . . “California is typically a higher-cost labor market,” Aetna Real Estate Client Relationship Manager Susan Beers told the board in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. “It makes Fresno a more desirable service center for us than it would be otherwise.”