Think Silicon Valley and the mess the left has made of the Bay Area, and the taxes they pay. They could be next.

Amazon Ditches Seattle As Business Tax Threats And Homeless Epidemic Reach Peak Liberal





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.

The move allows Amazon to continue tapping the Seattle region's deep talent pool but lets the company escape some of the friction it is experiencing in its hometown.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/amazon-ditches-seattle-as-business-tax-threats-and-homeless-epidemic-reach-peak-liberal/

Quote from: Solar on April 04, 2019, 08:47:09 PM
Think Silicon Valley and the mess the left has made of the Bay Area, and the taxes they pay. They could be next.

Amazon Ditches Seattle As Business Tax Threats And Homeless Epidemic Reach Peak Liberal





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.

The move allows Amazon to continue tapping the Seattle region's deep talent pool but lets the company escape some of the friction it is experiencing in its hometown.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/amazon-ditches-seattle-as-business-tax-threats-and-homeless-epidemic-reach-peak-liberal/

Let's not forget that Boeing moved a huge part of their operation to Charleston, SC several years ago. I was working in that area during this move and it turned the Charleston area into a boom town.

Quote from: supsalemgr on April 05, 2019, 04:39:35 AM
Let's not forget that Boeing moved a huge part of their operation to Charleston, SC several years ago. I was working in that area during this move and it turned the Charleston area into a boom town.

It was soooo weird going to Seattle, all white, racist as Hell, yet liberal progressive/socialist as the day was long. SF wears their failed liberalism like a badge of honor, homeless druggies and illegals shitting all over the city, while Seattle tries to hide their issues, push them off and out of site while taxing anything that doesn't move to pay for their leftist failures.

Weird, they're quite the contrast to SF, but identical in thought and failed policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw

Quote from: Bronx on April 05, 2019, 09:43:31 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw

Amazon mentioned that the expose' done by KOMO was one of the reasons for their decision.