Amazon moving thousands of employees out of Seattle, relocating key division to nearby city

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https://www.geekwire.com/2019/exclusive-amazon-moving-thousands-employees-seattle-relocating-key-division-nearby-city/

Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to Bellevue, Wash., by 2023, adding thousands of employees to its new campus just across Lake Washington, according to an internal email obtained by GeekWire.

Moving a large and critical team away from Amazon’s Seattle headquarters is a significant relocation of employees on its own, but it’s also a weighty symbolic gesture — the clearest sign yet that the tech giant is cooling on its hometown while doubling down on a neighboring city.

“I’m excited to share the news that we’re planning to migrate worldwide operations to Bellevue starting this year,” said Dave Clark, the senior vice president in charge of the team, in an email to his employees Wednesday. “This move gives room to grow while maintaining the campus feel that we’ve come to love around South Lake Union.”

Sources familiar with the plans said several thousand employees will be moving to Bellevue in the years ahead. Amazon confirmed the authenticity of the email obtained by GeekWire.

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1. That reporting seems a little over the top

Bellevue is only about 10 miles away. They are moving to a suburban part of the same big city area.

Also news...the University of Miami is actually in Coral Gables and the New England Patriots don't play in Boston.

They make it seem so drastic.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. As long as the bridges hold between the 2 areas, no problem.

Also true that Bellevue does not have the same quality of life problems that Seattle is facing,
at least not yet.