Office profile
Block Headquarters & offices · Oakland, California
Block · Oakland, California
No headquarters at all: since 2020 most Block employees choose where they work — and can work from abroad up to 45 days a year.
The offices, the benefits and the office history since 2009 — then the pay. Every number from Block's own filings, careers site and press releases, and from the architects' project pages.
- 0designated headquarters, since 2020
- 45 daysof international work a year, 150+ countries
- 16free therapy or coaching sessions a year (U.S.)
- $222,772median employee pay, 2025
Sources: Form 10-K 2025 · Proxy statement 2026 · block.xyz/careers/employee-benefits · Block U.S. benefits guide
Companies / United States / Fintech / Block
NO HEADQUARTERS · DISTRIBUTED SINCE 2020
A company without a headquarters — and a 1929 department store in Oakland
Since 2020 Block has had no designated headquarters: for most roles, people work inside or outside a Block office as they choose. The address it must name for the SEC is Uptown Station in Oakland — the 1929 Capwell's department store, rebuilt as an eight-story office with loft ceilings, exposed steel trusses and a multi-story atrium under a glass skylight. Instead of a big corporate cafeteria, the ground floor became a public marketplace.
- No designated HQ since 2020
- Uptown Station: 356,000 sq ft (≈ 33,074 m²)
- Built 1929 as Capwell's
- Directly above a BART station
- Offices in New York, Oakland, St. Louis
Facts: Form 10-K 2025 · Square press release, Dec 20, 2018 · CIM Group case study “Uptown Station” · Gensler project page “Uptown Station”
Oakland, and the former San Francisco headquarters
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Uptown Station (principal executive office) | 1955 Broadway, Suite 600, Oakland, CA 94612 |
| Former headquarters (2013–2020) | 1455 Market Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94103 |
Source: Form 10-K 2025 (principal executive office) · Form S-1, 2015 (headquarters address) · See them on the map ↓
Source: Form 10-K 2018 (Oakland lease) · Square press release, Dec 20, 2018 · CIM Group case study · Gensler and MBH Architects project pages (both describe their work on Uptown Station) · ArchKey project page “Square – Uptown Station” · Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and BCCI Construction project pages
Benefits (United States)
Up to 45 days a year of international work across 150+ countries.
Block stock at a 15% discount through payroll deductions; enrollment twice a year.
Flexible PTO; non-exempt employees get structured paid time off, holidays and sick leave.
Up to 16 sessions a year through Lyra, free, for you and each eligible dependent.
Dollar for dollar up to $2,000, then 50% until matching reaches $5,000 a year.
Fertility help on Aetna plans; surrogacy and adoption help for all employees.
On the Aetna HSA plan, Block contributes enough to cover half the deductible each year.
Company-paid, 2× base salary plus on-target earnings, up to $1 million; disability fully paid.
Source: block.xyz/careers/employee-benefits · Block “Benefits Highlights for Full-Time U.S. Employees” (block.xyz/documents/employee-benefits-united-states)
Why people stay: what Block itself says
Home office, a Block office or hybrid — for most roles the setup is yours to define.
Every employee receives equity on top of pay.
Careers can move between Cash App, Square, TIDAL, Afterpay, Bitkey and Proto.
Learning and development programs for all employees, including manager enablement.
Pay equity analyses are run every year alongside the feedback cycle.
Block dedicates resources to its employee resource groups.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital · Proxy statement 2026 · block.xyz/careers/employee-benefits
Who works here
full-time employees (Dec 31, 2025)
full-time employees outside the U.S.
countries with Block employees
planned workforce reduction announced in February 2026
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital · Proxy statement 2026, pay ratio disclosure (employee population by country; shares calculated by eciffo)
Pay at Block
Jack Dorsey, Block Head (CEO), asks to be paid only a salary of $2.75 a year — less than 0.00001 times the median.
Source: Proxy statement, April 24, 2026 (pay ratio disclosure)
Source: Block job postings R0006554 (Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering, Bay Area/remote) and R0007139 (Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform, New York), 2026. Block sorts U.S. locations into four pay zones; Zone D ranges are $153,000–$229,600 and $185,200–$277,800.
U.S. companies don't have to report pay by age, and Block doesn't. Pay by level, above, is the closest official number.
Office history: from Square's San Francisco offices to no headquarters at all
- 2009 Square is founded
Square was incorporated in Delaware in June 2009. Co-founders Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey have sat on the board since July 2009.
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · Proxy statement 2026
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - Before 2013 The San Francisco Chronicle building
Square's offices were in the San Francisco Chronicle building. It grew from about 300 employees in 2012 to more than 600 in 2013.
Source: Square press release, Oct 7, 2013
San Francisco Chronicle Building, 901 Mission Street · Nancy Wong / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2013 1455 Market Street — three times the space
In October 2013 Square moved its headquarters to 1455 Market Street in San Francisco's Central Market neighborhood: more than 150,000 sq ft (≈ 13,935 m²).
Source: Square press release, Oct 7, 2013
1455 Market Street · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2015–16 A windowless data center becomes a “city”
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson turned a former Bank of America data center into a 320,000 sq ft office over four floors, completed in 2016, with a central “boulevard”, a library, a gallery, a cafe and a monumental stair. At its 2015 IPO filing Square leased 333,570 sq ft there and had 1,171 full-time employees.
Source: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson project page · Form S-1, 2015
1455 Market Street, San Francisco, 2021 · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2018 469,056 sq ft in San Francisco, and a lease in Oakland
The San Francisco headquarters reached 469,056 sq ft (≈ 43,577 m²). In December 2018 Square leased the entire office space of Uptown Station in Oakland, 355,762 sq ft, to 2031.
Source: Form 10-K 2018 · Square press release, Dec 20, 2018
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2019–20 St. Louis, then distributed work
In July 2019 Square leased 226,258 sq ft in St. Louis for 15.5 years. In 2020 it adopted a distributed work model and stopped designating a headquarters.
Source: Form 10-K 2019 · Form 10-K 2025
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2021 Square becomes Block
The company changed its name to Block on December 10, 2021; the Square name stayed with the seller business.
Source: Block press release “Square, Inc. Changes Name to Block”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2023 Leaving 1455 Market Street
Block vacated most of its San Francisco space at the end of 2023 and gave back about half of the St. Louis space.
Source: Form 10-K 2022 and 2023, Item 2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - Today No headquarters, three main offices
Block names 1955 Broadway, Oakland, as its principal executive office only because SEC rules require one. It leases offices in New York (to 2028), Oakland (to 2031) and St. Louis (to 2036).
Source: Form 10-K 2025
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| Press 2013 | 150,000+ | 13,935+ | New HQ at 1455 Market Street |
| S-1 2015 | 333,570 | 30,990 | San Francisco headquarters lease |
| 10-K 2017 | 338,910 | 31,486 | San Francisco headquarters lease |
| 10-K 2018 | 469,056 | 43,577 | San Francisco headquarters; Oakland lease of 355,762 sq ft signed |
| 10-K 2021– | — | — | No designated headquarters |
Map: how the headquarters moved
From Market Street in San Francisco across the Bay to Oakland's Uptown, about 13 km away — though since 2020 Block calls none of its offices a headquarters.
- 1 · 20131455 Market Street, San Francisco — Square's headquarters, 2013 to 2020; mostly vacated at the end of 2023
- 2 · 2019Uptown Station, 1955 Broadway, Oakland — Leased in 2018; today Block's principal executive office (no designated HQ)
Addresses: Form S-1 (2015), Form 10-K 2025, Square press releases 2013 and 2018
What Block does
Block started as Square, a card reader for phones that let small businesses take payments. Today it is an ecosystem of brands — Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey and Proto — built around its purpose of economic empowerment.
Two reporting segments: Square and Cash App.
Where the money came from · revenue by category, 2025
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Item 1 (segments) and Item 7 (revenue by category)
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Item 1 and Item 7
Growth: revenue vs. people
$1.7B → $24.2B
1,853 → 10,205
Calendar years. Revenue: SEC XBRL financial data from Block's 10-K filings (includes bitcoin sales). Employees: full-time, Form 10-K. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Co-founder. CEO and President from July 2009; his title became Block Head in April 2022. Chairperson since 2010. At his request he is paid only a salary of $2.75 a year.
Co-founders: Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · Block press release “Square, Inc. Changes Name to Block”
Block: questions people ask
Where is Block's headquarters?
Block has no designated headquarters: it adopted a distributed work model in 2020. The principal executive office it must name under SEC rules is 1955 Broadway, Suite 600, Oakland, California — the Uptown Station building.
Source: Form 10-K 2025
Where was Square's headquarters?
At 1455 Market Street in San Francisco from October 2013. Before that, Square was in the San Francisco Chronicle building. Block vacated most of the Market Street space at the end of 2023.
Source: Square press release, Oct 7, 2013 · Form 10-K 2023
Who designed Square's San Francisco headquarters?
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, which turned a windowless former Bank of America data center into a 320,000 sq ft office over four floors, completed in 2016. BCCI Construction built it.
Source: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and BCCI Construction project pages
Can Block employees work remotely?
Yes, for most roles. Employees can work from home, from a Block office or both, unless the role needs a specific location, and can work from abroad up to 45 days a year in 150+ countries.
Source: block.xyz/careers/employee-benefits · Form 10-K 2025
How many people work at Block?
10,205 full-time employees at the end of 2025, 2,472 of them outside the U.S. In February 2026 Block announced a plan to reduce its workforce by more than 40%.
Source: Form 10-K 2025
What benefits does Block offer?
In the U.S.: equity for every employee, a stock purchase plan at 15% off, flexible PTO, up to 16 free therapy or coaching sessions a year through Lyra, a 401(k) match up to $5,000, and fertility, surrogacy and adoption support.
Source: block.xyz/careers/employee-benefits · Block U.S. benefits guide
How much do Block employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $222,772 in 2025. 2026 postings list base pay of $180,000–$270,000 for a Software Engineer and $217,800–$326,800 for a Senior Software Engineer in Block's highest pay zone.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · Block job postings R0006554 and R0007139
How big is Block's Oakland office?
Block leased 355,762 sq ft (≈ 33,051 m²) in Oakland to 2031 — the entire office space of Uptown Station, a 356,000 sq ft, eight-story former 1929 department store above a BART station.
Source: Form 10-K 2018 · Square press release, Dec 20, 2018
Who is Block's CEO?
Jack Dorsey, co-founder, who has led the company since 2009. His title is Block Head, and at his request he is paid only a $2.75 salary.
Source: Proxy statement 2026
Why did Square change its name to Block?
To separate the company from its businesses: the Square name stayed with the seller business, while Block covers Square, Cash App, TIDAL and others. The change took effect on December 10, 2021.
Source: Block press release “Square, Inc. Changes Name to Block”
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