Wherever he goes he will have to improve the internet service that exist so that is not really a big issue.
The most limiting factor for relocating is probably the lifestyle the area provides for the employees.
Attracting the best employees requires a city with the facilities that employees desire.
Detroit would probably offer Amazon 20 year tax breaks and free land to relocate there but how many employees would want to relocate to Detroit?
He needs to go to Texas plenty of space there to build a whole compound, there is so much land there he could build his own city Amazon, Texas!!!
There are many beautiful suburbs in commuting distance to Detroit—Amazon could afford to build a beautiful and secure corporate HQ in the city with free transportation to and from the burbs...
In Today’s world the staff can work from anywhere remotely.
Its only the warehouse workers who need to be local. Probably plenty of them anywhere.
This stupid councilwoman doesn’t understand that.
Detroit is beginning to appear more business friendly and stable than Seattle...
Attracting the best employees requires a city with the facilities that employees desire.”””
Keep in mind that Amazon needs employees who can fill orders fast. We are NOT talking about brain surgery or man on the moon stuff here.
ALL employees wish to be safe. Seattle already destroyed that illusion & no one alive today will see it cleaned up.
While I am not a user of Amazon nor a fan of Bezos, as a life long bookkeeper/accounting person—I urge him to leave the Seattle area—perhaps even the whole state.
Actions have consequences——Seattle needs to learn that.Right now, they are the POSTER CHILD for bad decisions by Mayors who are way over their pay scales.