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Walt Disney to move thousands of jobs from California to Florida

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IsailedawayfromFR:

--- Quote from: PeteS in CA on July 26, 2021, 06:04:06 pm ---According to the OP article in the thread in the California forum, planning for the move was in progress in 2019. Goobernor Noisome's Covid tyranny may have confirmed the decision, but it was probably high housing costs in the Land of LA and California's hostile business climate that started the decision and planning processes.

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Yep, and other companies am sure are in the process of accelerating plans to do the same.

The Fortune 500 company I worked for had been HQd in California for over 80 years and had enough of it and moved to Texas a few years ago.

dfwgator:

--- Quote from: Ghost Bear on July 26, 2021, 02:12:51 am ---The rumors that I have heard (online, so take them with a large grain of salt) hint that while the positions are being moved from CA to FL, the people aren't. Instead they are being laid off in CA, and the positions will be filled in FL "eventually". In other words, this is actually a sneaky layoff by Disney. But, who knows?  :shrug:

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Last thing we need is more liberals in Florida.

PeteS in CA:

--- Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on July 26, 2021, 07:30:58 pm ---Yep, and other companies am sure are in the process of accelerating plans to do the same.

The Fortune 500 company I worked for had been HQd in California for over 80 years and had enough of it and moved to Texas a few years ago.

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My previous employer is a multi-billion $$ corporation that is basically like a zigsaw puzzle of divisions bought from companies selling off divisions that were insufficiently related to their core business. The division I worked at realized that telling potential college grad recruits that the housing they could afford would be 1-2 hours' drive away and that they probably never would be able to afford a home near the company really was not a compelling recruiting story. So corporate bigwigs decided to divvy up the division I worked at between a facility in PA and a facility in Torrance (which was where my group would have gone). Torrance is in the Land of LA, still CA, but lower housing prices than the SF Bay Area. Not really wanting to move, Torrance became "Plan B", and "Plan A", finding another job, worked. That all went down in 2016.

libertybele:

--- Quote from: dfwgator on July 26, 2021, 07:38:31 pm ---Last thing we need is more liberals in Florida.

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 :amen:

IsailedawayfromFR:

--- Quote from: PeteS in CA on July 27, 2021, 12:22:20 am ---My previous employer is a multi-billion $$ corporation that is basically like a zigsaw puzzle of divisions bought from companies selling off divisions that were insufficiently related to their core business. The division I worked at realized that telling potential college grad recruits that the housing they could afford would be 1-2 hours' drive away and that they probably never would be able to afford a home near the company really was not a compelling recruiting story. So corporate bigwigs decided to divvy up the division I worked at between a facility in PA and a facility in Torrance (which was where my group would have gone). Torrance is in the Land of LA, still CA, but lower housing prices than the SF Bay Area. Not really wanting to move, Torrance became "Plan B", and "Plan A", finding another job, worked. That all went down in 2016.

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It's a real shame.

The same scenarios on a much smaller scale is right now being played out in Austin as people find housing unaffordable near the city.

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