GSK chief Emma Walmsley picks out a trim new global HQ in downsizing move
After spinning out the consumer division and trimming down at the headquarters for the post-pandemic era, GSK chief Emma Walmsley has found a new home for the multinational pharma giant in London. And she plans a big move-in to the HQ in early 2024 — after the architects put the finishing touches to the structure next year.
GSK is moving out of west London and into the city’s center, with HQ staff taking up residence in the 140,000-square-foot Earnshaw building close to the Tottenham Court Road station. Hiving off the consumer unit took 800 staffers out of the equation for GSK House by the M4, which had 3,500 employees remaining in the London center before the consolidation into the new building takes that number down another notch, to around 3,000.
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