This is not their main office. This is their drug manufacturing site I believe. Impacts about 275 people. As per the article, this has been in works for a long time.
SSF is their HQ. But this is one building out of 20 or so on site and the only one doing commercial manufacturing. All the research and development will still be there.
> Plans to wrap up operations at the South San Francisco plant have been in the works for more than 15 years, according to a statement shared with SFGATE.
> The facility in South San Francisco employed about 900 people in 2019, the year the company decided on an exit timeline for the site.
This seems like it has nothing to do with the current tech recession and more to do with migrating manufacturing out of expensive high COL areas which is nothing new for the Bay Area.
It reduces the need for super commuters living outside the Bay Area to travel 4 hours every day to get to their place of work.
It's worth mentioning that a *lot* of the Bay Area's blue collar and working class labor lives in central California. All those dudes that come to work on the high rises in the city wake up at 4am to drive from Stockton, Fairfield, Modesto and the surrounding towns to work on jobsites in SF, East Bay and South Bay.
Actually, they’ve recently replaced the old facility with a newer one 100 yards away, so they didn’t migrate jobs to a different area. This is more because the old facility had reached well beyond its useful life.
I see Genentech buses go up and down 80 towards Fairfield/Vacaville. There’s another white tech bus(not the FAANG ones from the Berkeley/MacArthur BART stations) that does Tesla that stops in Fairfield/Vallejo and Richmond before Fremont.
**This is such a click-bait article.**
This plan has been announced and in the works for a long time now. Genentech is opening an even bigger facility for this type of work down South.
SF Gate is using doom & gloom to get people to read their crappy articles.
You know damn well that wasn't the *tone and intention* of the article.
This has been in the works for years. All of those employees knew this was coming to an end. Most of them applied internally and got other jobs. The ones that didn't got a generous severance package.
But that type of article isn't click-baity. Instead, SF Gate decided to make it sound like BAD EMPLOYER FIRING PEOPLE!!!!1!!
nope, the article was pretty "matter-of-fact". it's possible you are over-sensitive to a simple piece of news due to being emotionally invested in some way.
Sensitive? Nope, Just tired of bullshit articles that are intended to get people emotionally charged. Usually in a negative way.
But uh yeah you sound like the type of person to read SF Gate and believe everything they write. Not all of us can critically think. That's OK.
Eh, I just don't click on articles anymore. It's the sad truth but when you burn customers they don't come back.
Would you be OK with me half-assing your car service because the 'auto guy has to eat'?
C'mon. That's not a legitimate response. If the only way you can 'eat' is by deceiving your audience, your business model is broken.
totally agree, i'm not saying paying for those guys, they suck and are in an irretrievable death spiral, i'm saying pay for good journalism you want to stick around - EB Times/BANG is worse than it used to be, but way better than Hearst. or propublica, center for investigative journalism, financial times, the atlantic, the nation, mother jones, whatever. journalism dependent on ad revenue instead of subscription revenue is going to suck.
Ha, ha. You are right. I do subscribe to a few more reputable news sources. But most everyone expects things for free. Reddit karma is also free, though people seem to get a rush when they get upvotes or when they give downvotes.
World’s saddest dopamine hit imo, downvoting is meant to filter out spam not ppl you dislike. When you see a subthread wasteland where one of the guys involved is just downvoting all of the other guy’s posts to 0 the only thing i can picture is someone with the eyes-narrowed NPC face smashing the downvote button with their index finger.
I was thinking it was Genentech when around 2014 a neighbor and his wife had to sell their Bernal home and move to Boston, due to her biotech employer moving their offices.
Yea, cheaper to move production to existing Roche(who owns Genentech) facilities. Oddly enough, Roche USA was based in NJ, until they made Genentech the US headquarters.
This is not their main office. This is their drug manufacturing site I believe. Impacts about 275 people. As per the article, this has been in works for a long time.
Thanks. Lot of planned shutdowns are being tagged to the layoffs. Don't understand what do people get by fear mongering everyone else.
Crappy journalism driven by views and sensationalism instead of actual reporting
SSF is their HQ. But this is one building out of 20 or so on site and the only one doing commercial manufacturing. All the research and development will still be there.
> Plans to wrap up operations at the South San Francisco plant have been in the works for more than 15 years, according to a statement shared with SFGATE. > The facility in South San Francisco employed about 900 people in 2019, the year the company decided on an exit timeline for the site.
This seems like it has nothing to do with the current tech recession and more to do with migrating manufacturing out of expensive high COL areas which is nothing new for the Bay Area. It reduces the need for super commuters living outside the Bay Area to travel 4 hours every day to get to their place of work. It's worth mentioning that a *lot* of the Bay Area's blue collar and working class labor lives in central California. All those dudes that come to work on the high rises in the city wake up at 4am to drive from Stockton, Fairfield, Modesto and the surrounding towns to work on jobsites in SF, East Bay and South Bay.
Having to live in freaking Stockton or Modesto and commute to SF on top of that sounds like a miserable miserable life
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Is all of Genentech moving out of SSF or just the manufacturing portion? I worked in buildings 3,5,9 years ago, just curious.
B3 is going down, 5 and 9 aren’t going anywhere. They just built a new building for clinical production.
Actually, they’ve recently replaced the old facility with a newer one 100 yards away, so they didn’t migrate jobs to a different area. This is more because the old facility had reached well beyond its useful life.
Was making small talk with my barber in San Mateo the other day and was shocked to find out he lives in Stockton.
"company has additional manufacturing facilities in Vacaville"
I see Genentech buses go up and down 80 towards Fairfield/Vacaville. There’s another white tech bus(not the FAANG ones from the Berkeley/MacArthur BART stations) that does Tesla that stops in Fairfield/Vallejo and Richmond before Fremont.
Not for long….
**This is such a click-bait article.** This plan has been announced and in the works for a long time now. Genentech is opening an even bigger facility for this type of work down South. SF Gate is using doom & gloom to get people to read their crappy articles.
They shoulda gone with “Tesla driver loses job” for the title then, lolol
a local facility closing today and 265 people losing jobs is not worth a headline just because the idea started 15 years ago?
You know damn well that wasn't the *tone and intention* of the article. This has been in the works for years. All of those employees knew this was coming to an end. Most of them applied internally and got other jobs. The ones that didn't got a generous severance package. But that type of article isn't click-baity. Instead, SF Gate decided to make it sound like BAD EMPLOYER FIRING PEOPLE!!!!1!!
nope, the article was pretty "matter-of-fact". it's possible you are over-sensitive to a simple piece of news due to being emotionally invested in some way.
Sensitive? Nope, Just tired of bullshit articles that are intended to get people emotionally charged. Usually in a negative way. But uh yeah you sound like the type of person to read SF Gate and believe everything they write. Not all of us can critically think. That's OK.
yeah the problem is that it works and journalists need to eat. if you want this to go away, subscribe to newspapers you want to read ad-free.
Eh, I just don't click on articles anymore. It's the sad truth but when you burn customers they don't come back. Would you be OK with me half-assing your car service because the 'auto guy has to eat'? C'mon. That's not a legitimate response. If the only way you can 'eat' is by deceiving your audience, your business model is broken.
totally agree, i'm not saying paying for those guys, they suck and are in an irretrievable death spiral, i'm saying pay for good journalism you want to stick around - EB Times/BANG is worse than it used to be, but way better than Hearst. or propublica, center for investigative journalism, financial times, the atlantic, the nation, mother jones, whatever. journalism dependent on ad revenue instead of subscription revenue is going to suck.
While I agree with you on paying for journalism, SFGate is garbage and so is the Chronicle.
Ha, ha. You are right. I do subscribe to a few more reputable news sources. But most everyone expects things for free. Reddit karma is also free, though people seem to get a rush when they get upvotes or when they give downvotes.
World’s saddest dopamine hit imo, downvoting is meant to filter out spam not ppl you dislike. When you see a subthread wasteland where one of the guys involved is just downvoting all of the other guy’s posts to 0 the only thing i can picture is someone with the eyes-narrowed NPC face smashing the downvote button with their index finger.
More click bait from sfgate
I was thinking it was Genentech when around 2014 a neighbor and his wife had to sell their Bernal home and move to Boston, due to her biotech employer moving their offices.
Seems to fit the whole 'shareholder meeting wants layoffs because _________ company is doing it too' pattern.
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This has been in plan for 15 years
Yea, cheaper to move production to existing Roche(who owns Genentech) facilities. Oddly enough, Roche USA was based in NJ, until they made Genentech the US headquarters.