Google postpones moving into new Tel Aviv offices

• Published date: 24 January 2023

Google has signed a contract to lease 20-floors in the ToHa 2 tower, which will be ready for occupation in 2026. At the same time Google Israel is maintaining its existing offices including nine-floors in the Ampa Tower (formerly Electra Tower) on Yigal Alon Street and its startup campus in nearby Haomanim Street as well as other offices at 96 Yigal Alon Street and its development center in Haifa

The high renovation costs in Rubinstein Towers, and the need to cut horizontally without causing layoffs, have led the company to make the postponement. But Google is not canceling the lease agreement it signed with the building's management, as far as his know, and plans honoring the deal.

Last Friday Google announced that it is laying off 12,000 employees worldwide, or 6% of its workforce. Google employees in Israel have not yet been notified of layoffs. Instead, the company's 2,000 employees in the country received an email message from the management indicating that no decision had yet been made as to...