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Amazon Opens Search for Amazon HQ2
Amazon Opens Search for Amazon HQ2 – A Second Headquarters City in North America
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09-07-2017, 09:41 AM | #2 |
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They're getting too big for Seattle and are about to do a Boeing. Boeing moved its headquarters from Seattle to Chicago in 2001.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Seattle HQ slowly lost importance to the new HQ and then one day ceased to exist. |
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Plus Seattle has some non-zero risk of being subject to major earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption/mudflow, and the way things are going, rising ocean levels. And while it is a beautiful location, it might be getting harder to get people to move there. When I drove through there a couple of years ago, it took a couple of hours to transit, and it was not commute time.
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Why Amazon's plan to build a second headquarters could be a 'marketing ploy'
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I'm curious what is the lowest annual salary Amazon considers highly paid since Amazon writes that all the approximately 50,000 employees at the new headquarters will be highly paid.
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09-08-2017, 05:39 PM | #7 |
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Amazon is not a single company but more of a conglomerate of somewhat disparate businesses so having two or more Headquarters is not at all impossible.
Breaking the pure tech companies' management (Kiva, Lab126, AWS) apart from the retail and logistics companies actually makes sense. |
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As for what is the starting point for "highly paid," we don't know. But I'm pretty sure they would regard any union-negotiated salary to be more than highly paid. I'm currently reading The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite. According to author Duff McDonald, Amazon has a higher percentage of MBA's than other tech companies because of emphasis on keeping down costs, including wages, for the non-elite part of the workforce. And, by the way, this April 2017 release is only $2.99 The scandal here isn't solely Amazon's fault. Local government should not be using my tax dollars to bribe the world's Amazons to locate here. Bidding wars, for tax incentives to be given a particular company, should be illegal nationwide (and hopefully beyond that - now there's something to add to NAFTA). Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 09-08-2017 at 08:23 PM. |
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If they Move instead of adding then there is going to be a LOT of Unemployment in WA
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Well, that's part of why I want a number, maybe they think $5/hour is highly paid. |
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"Highly paid" usually means they are paid better than workers in similar jobs in the area. So it would vary according to the locality
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If this comes to pass then yes they will be closing the first HQ at some point. They might promise the state to keep it open for a certain number of years, but during those years they will be laying off the staff at least twice a year until they can close it up for good.
And their concept of highly paid will be just a little bit more then the average salary others are being paid in similar positions. Then those people will find themselves stuck at that salary for as long as they are there. Don't believe for one second that Amazon is interested in improving anyone's wages. Last edited by cfrizz; 09-09-2017 at 12:49 PM. |
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As to the paychecks, yeah sure we will start you off at a quarter more an hour than other companies. Maybe $1 more for management positions. Won't finish the rest of the thought. |
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