Apple has offered to lease another or both remaining buildings (1 & 2). The surprise part is that we are yet to respond to that offer. They didn’t rule it out, yet anyway. With the new tech center moving to India, the need for a triangle presence and retaining costly employees in NC may be fading.
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@pmn+1gu3huuO we lease the whole campus from Highmark Properties.
Considering the talent pool in NC is stretched so thin Apple will fail much alike Met did there. People will come in with their shiny new fraternity pin and MBA and no experience. They'll spend a year trying to understand why their macroeconomics book isn't real life compared to true business acumen. They'll get frustrated that they aren't given participation trophies weekly. In year two when they get their 1.9% raise they'll run to another company as an 'experienced worker' MBA professional and the cycle will start all over.
For years people tried to hire tech talent there and it was abysmal finding legit workers. I'm not saying the move to India is any better but trashing all the talent in the Northeast US that knew the jobs to replace with cheaper talent that changes like the leaves on a tree is not a good plan. Met failed at that plan and nobody was ever held accountable.
I’m calling bull on that….no doubt layoffs but not over preference of WFH….that’s just d-mb and would be retaliation. Besides- do u think they would survey on preference and slay? How on earth could they determine someone’s preference when majority are formally hybrid.
Outsourcing, yes, yes, yes……more layoffs for this reason.
More layoffs for who prefer WFH considering recession ahead just like they did during Covid
Very interesting.
Does MetLife own or lease the buildings? If lease, how many floors did they lease?
Huh….Shouldn’t this be an easy decision when most people prefer to continue to work from home?