Posted on 04/05/2019 5:12:53 PM PDT by dennisw
Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to Bellevue, Wash., by 2023, adding thousands of employees to its new campus just across Lake Washington, according to an internal email obtained by GeekWire.
Moving a large and critical team away from Amazon’s Seattle headquarters is a significant relocation of employees on its own, but it’s also a weighty symbolic gesture — the clearest sign yet that the tech giant is cooling on its hometown while doubling down on a neighboring city.
Sources familiar with the plans said several thousand employees will be moving to Bellevue in the years ahead. Amazon confirmed the authenticity of the email obtained by GeekWire.
Worldwide operations is one of the most critical teams at Amazon, the arm responsible for getting packages to customers’ doors. It oversees more than 175 operating fulfillment centers around the world and the 250,000 employees who work there. The team also manages Amazon’s thousands of delivery truck trailers and its fleet of 40 airplanes. New logistics initiatives, like Amazon’s “Delivery Service Partners” program, also fall under the worldwide operations purview.
Amazon will start moving employees to Bellevue this month and will finish the migration by 2023. The company currently has 700 employees in Bellevue and more than 45,000 at its Seattle headquarters.
It would take some time for Amazon’s Bellevue team to grow to a size that rivals Seattle, but moving the worldwide operations team is a big step in that direction. The migration adds weight to the theory that Amazon is shifting its focus to Bellevue and other cities across the country amid ongoing tensions between the tech giant and its longtime hometown.
Why would Amazon move one of its most essential teams out of the company’s Seattle headquarters? Amazon hasn’t yet commented publicly, but there are a few possible reasons.
That animosity came to a head last year, when Seattle officials passed a tax on big businesses, like Amazon, to fund affordable housing, a pressing issue in the region. The business community balked at the tax, leading the city to repeal it less than a month later. The fight over the so-called “head tax” became emblematic of Amazon’s strained relationship with Seattle. EXCERPT
Amazon thinks moving to another room in the asylum will solve something. For business/logistical geniuses they sure are stupid.
“Bellevue is almost 40% foreign born.”
This 40% is educated Asians, who are honorary whites. In any case, very few blacks and lots fewer than Portland Oregon. Portland, one of the whitest major cities, if not the whitest. Talking percentages of total population/ both places of course.
I’ll bet public schools Bellevue are outta sight good.
All those employees will now vote lefties onto the Bellevue city council and they’ll be right back at square one.
Amazon is moving to the edge of the petri-dish.
So what. Educated Asians in Bellvue are peaceful, contribute economically, and are honorary white boys and girls. At least in the minds of white parents there who want good to excellent public schools for their children.
Marxists aren’t liberals they are leftists. I think there are maybe three liberals left in the Democrat party.
He’s mocking the description of Bellevue as all white.
Bellevue does have a lot of hard-working people and currently has no tent cities.
Seattle has the huge University of Washington campus as well as Seattle Central Community. There are a lot of students who are voting in the Seattle elections.
Wyoming might be nice... if they would have you.
“It must really be bad if even Bozos notices.”
What you said! And look how Bezos kicked NYC to the curb for all the static AOC and other New Yawkers were giving him and Amazon. Ming the merciless is now Bezos the merciless. He cut off New York City ...Just like that! BOOM! DONE! With you!
And now JeffyPoo Bezos (worth 108 billions post divorce) and his boot licking flunkies in upper Amazon management are done with the liberal kooks and AOC wannabes of Seattle. BOOM! Just like that!
I wish he’d have a change of heart and fire the entire Wshington Post.
Kinda explains why big tech has such indifference/contempt for traditional American values ....
Bellevue => Population - 141,415. Ethnicity => 51.4% White; 34.6% Asian; 7.2% Hispanic; 2.5% Black.
Very safe city. Total of 15 murders from 2002 through 2016.
(Figures from city-data.com)
If I was him I’d build my own city for each headquarters.
And proceed to vote in the same politicians that got them into the mess they’re fleeing in Seattle.
I have family in the area.
The homeless problem is not as much a case of the high cost of living, but rampant drug use, mild climate, and it being an “in” city to be homeless in.
Because taxes? I thought libs loved taxes!
“...to the mighty whitey suburbs of Bellevue, Washington.”
We donate to a church-sponsored school. They have something like 17 different languages in the school. I was in the Costco near Bellevue before a winter storm. Ended up talking with a young guy from India - it was this massive crowd due to the storm.
“He said - this is how India is - but all the time!”
“Yeah, in more ways than one!”
He laughed. I bet 50% of the people were from India, another 30% muslim, some other nationalities, and a few white people. In my line of perhaps 50 people there were two white people. (My wife told me to get eggs. All the other stores were out!)
Not sure what Amazon will do once Bellevue gets even more liberal, and comes up with the idea to do a head-tax.
There are several neighborhood groups fronting candidates for the next city council election, who people classify as ‘get-tough’ types on the homelessness issue. Between the petty crime, and the tents pitched up in city parks...residents are reaching a point of being fed up.
But I would question what measures are left to use. You’d have to dump the prosecution team, and the local judges. Some people suggest at least 13,000 living out of tent/shelters within the city limits. Maybe they could offer a one-way bus-ticket to San Francisco.
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