TikTok is closing its Nashville office and laying off the staff based there.
The company said it was shutting the office, on Music Row, to “streamline our operations and better align our teams for long-term growth.”
TikTok confirmed the closure to Nashville television station FOX 17 News on Wednesday (August 5), two years after it signed the lease.
The Nashville Business Journal reported that all of the office’s staff had been laid off.
The New York Times reported that TikTok laid off 250 employees at its Nashville office, according to labor documents filed with the state of Tennessee.
The office, which occupies several floors of the Moore Building on 19th Avenue South, will close on October 5, according to the newspaper.
“We have decided to close our Nashville office to streamline our operations and better align our teams for long-term growth,” a TikTok USDS Joint Venture spokesperson said in a statement.
“We remain fully committed to providing secure, safe and positive experiences for the 200 million Americans that create, discover and connect with what they love on TikTok.”
TikTok signed the lease in 2024, taking more than 143,600 square feet across several floors of the Moore Building on Music Row, the district long tied to Nashville‘s recorded-music and publishing businesses.
The deal made TikTok the anchor tenant of the building, and ranked among Nashville’s largest office leases in a decade, according to CoStar.
It was also markedly larger than the 57,500 square feet the company had initially been expected to take, and came amid a leasing run that saw TikTok expand in Silicon Valley and the greater Seattle area, adding to existing offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Austin.
TikTok had moved into the building after several years operating out of a WeWork location in downtown Nashville.
The closure comes more than six months after TikTok’s US business was folded into a new joint venture led by American investors.
That restructuring, completed in January 2026, was designed to comply with a 2024 US law requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, to divest its US operations or face a ban.
Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi’s MGX lead the new venture, with ByteDance retaining a 19.9% stake.
As of 2023, TikTok said it employed around 7,000 people in the US.
TikTok shut its standalone TikTok Music streaming service in November 2024, and has since cut staff from its music division on more than one occasion.
The company laid off around 15 staff from its US and Latin American music divisions in October 2025, according to Billboard.
Senior music executives have also left over the past year, among them TikTok’s global head of music partnership development, Michael Kümmerle.
More widely, TikTok cut hundreds of jobs globally in 2024 as it shifted more of its content moderation to artificial intelligence.
TikTok‘s Nashville expansion had drawn objections from Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn, a longtime critic of the app who cited national-security concerns, the Nashville Tennessean reported.
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