TaskRabbit, the worker-for-hire app that did for odd jobs what Uber did for ride hailing, announced Monday it would be closing its physical office locations permanently, including its San Francisco headquarters — not because the company is scaling down, but because it’s going fully remote.
While many tech companies, including Square, Twitter and Slack have announced flexible, hybrid approaches to work, TaskRabbit, which already had a strong remote-first culture throughout the pandemic, is going all-in. The move affects more than 300 employees at the company, largely spread across cities like London; New York City; Austin, Texas; and the workers who filed into the TaskRabbit headquarters at 425 2nd St. in San Francisco.