Reddit: Amazon needs a new HQ because it can’t convince people to move to Seattle

They need a new headquarters also because Amazon has such an evil local employer reputation that most new hires are moving in from cheaper real estate markets.

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Amazon has burned through thousands of employees trying to keep their dumber managers in power. Amazon HQ is not American friendly either. Americans can quit and therefore are less valued there. Amazon has a large population of immigrant line and middle managers. It is dumb to think those people are going to move east to a red state. And its large population of immigrant workers at its HQ will not work under non-immigrant line managers. Economic conditions in India and China have improved a lot since 1994 as well, so not so many people are eager to become visa slaves in Seattle.