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WeWork’s job cuts include 169 employees in San Francisco, the company said in state filings obtained by The Chronicle on Tuesday.

It’s part of a wave of mass layoffs the office-leasing company made after it canceled a planned initial public offering. WeWork is trying to remake itself in the wake of the departure of controversial founder Adam Neumann. The company, which is headquartered in New York, had previously announced it would cut 20% of its workforce.

The employees whose jobs were affected in San Francisco range from interior design to engineering, real estate sourcing to recruiting. Six WeWork locations in South of Market saw job cuts: at Salesforce Tower and Embarcadero Center, and on Mission, Montgomery, Sansome and California streets. Salesforce Tower has housed WeWork’s West Coast headquarters.

WeWork declined to comment.

The filings said 16 additional employees would be retained by a third party, effective Dec. 9. Business Insider reported in November that the company was outsourcing janitorial jobs to real estate services company JLL.

WeWork grew to become one of San Francisco’s biggest office tenants in just four years, leasing more than a dozen offices and renting out individual desks to both single entrepreneurs and full floors to tech giants. It raised billions of dollars to fund its expansion and roughly doubled its locations both in the Bay Area and globally each year. But expenses also soared.

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The company’s filings said none of the facilities are expected to close due to layoffs.

Chronicle staff writer Roland Li contributed to this report.

Mallory Moench is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: mallory.moench@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @mallorymoench