Amazon crowd-sources new HQ location, Bezos tells mayors to woo him Amazon has gone full "The Bachelor" in its search for a city to host a second corporate headquarters. The mail-order retail giant said on Thursday that the "HQ2" facility, wherever it may land, would host up to 50,000 employees and serve as the secondary base of operations to its existing Seattle headquarters. Amazon is …
Come to Boston, we are super god damn friendly. Some of you think I'm lying. The truth is that Boston friendship is like Boston driving- directionless, reckless and frequently screaming obscenities. I go out to San Fran, Seattle- why are all these people being nice? Why do they walk so slowly everywhere? How the hell does anything get done on time? Anyway this is the best place so just get out here already.
If Bozos thinks that another fifty thousand unproductive HQ roles are going to make him even richer, then he may have an unpleasant surprise coming in a few year's time.
Other distractions will be the immense amount of travel and hotel costs that the employees will rack up in "essential business trips" between sites, and the fact that if there's so much as two jobs that overlap, the two locations won't play nicely with each other. And doubling the number of your HQ employees....well, that's going to really create a lean, creative, bureaucracy-free environment, is it not?
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They gave a party and nobody came?
One wonders. Build a stadium? It seems that cities like to do this to get football (American) teams to move. Las Vegas likes to do just that.
Maybe he needs to build a city from scratch. Call it "Amazonia", and eventually it will have a million people fawning over it.
It is way past time that Cities, State and the Federal Government said screw you to companies that'll move for a tax break. It should be illegal to offer one and illegal to refuse to ask for one. If your business model requires that it's a broken business model, if you want one just just because...well, go pound sand.
IOW hiring everyone remotely qualified that they can find in Seattle, or willing to move to Seattle, to work crazy hours for below-market pay is no longer enough and headcount is dropping at Amazon's main people warehouse. Solution being, of course, scaling up. There's no problem Bezos can't solve by going bigger! To be fair it's worked so far.
A few years down the line, virtually everyone who works for Amazon will be replaced by Robots. The same goes at Tesla, McDonalds and a host of other companies.
The Robots don't need breaks, pay no Taxes (not that is ever a problem at Amazon), don't need healthcare etc etc etc.
But Mr Bezos, with everyone out of work and in poverty or close to it, how will anyone but the few remaining super rich be able to afford even food let alone the rest of the 'tat' that you flog?
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