Yelp closes 3 U.S. offices due to WFH preferences

Yelp closes 3 U.S. offices due to WFH preferences

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2011 file photo, the logo of the online reviews website Yelp is shown in neon on a wall at the company's Manhattan offices in New York. Yelp is closing some physical offices, saying employees were hardly using them since the company went remote. Yelp said Thursday, June 23, 2022 it's closing offices in New York, Washington and Chicago and downsizing in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

(AP) — Yelp has decided to shutter three of its offices in the U.S. The reason: most of its employees don’t want to come in to work. In a blog post last week, Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said the physical offices to be closed are in New York, Washington and Chicago. The company says employees prefer to work remotely, so those offices use only about 2% of their space each week.

Photo: FILE – In this Oct. 26, 2011 file photo, the logo of the online reviews website Yelp is shown in neon on a wall at the company’s Manhattan offices in New York. Yelp is closing some physical offices, saying employees were hardly using them since the company went remote. Yelp said Thursday, June 23, 2022 it’s closing offices in New York, Washington and Chicago and downsizing in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)