TikTok closes Nashville office on Music Row and lays off staff – two years after signing the lease
TikTok is terminating operations at its Nashville Music Row office, eliminating approximately 250 positions at the facility in the Moore Building. The closure, scheduled to complete by October, arrives less than two years after the company signed the lease for the expansive space, which had become the building's primary tenant.
This shutdown follows TikTok's restructuring of its American operations in January 2026 into a joint venture controlled by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX—a reorganization mandated by 2024 federal legislation requiring ByteDance to divest its US interests or face operational prohibition. The latest workforce reduction joins a series of recent layoffs affecting the company's music and content moderation divisions.
- TikTok closing Nashville headquarters, eliminating ~250 jobs; exit set for October after signing lease just two years prior
- Closure follows January 2026 restructuring of US operations into American-led joint venture to comply with federal divest-or-ban requirement
- Part of broader staff reductions affecting music division and content moderation functions