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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Hey, it's Amazon.
There's always a nefarious reason.
It couldn't possibly be that Amazon only expects to be in the area for a couple years and didn't want to make the long-term commitment a deal typically requires.
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A non-nefarious reason is that they think forgoing corporate welfare will improve their reputation for good citizenship. And that may be a big part of it.
However, if they only plan "to be in the area for a couple years," expecting layoffs from the get-go, that's nefarious.
Here's a third possibility: They expect to stay around many years but quickly replace people with robots. (Further automation, ideally introduced in a gradual way avoiding layoffs, is inevitable.)