I don't think it is just for show. If they'd gone ahead and set up an office as planned in North Carolina, it'd mean their employees working there would've been

I don't think it is just for show. If they'd gone ahead and set up an office as planned in North Carolina, it'd mean their employees working there would've been directly affected by the law in question. As far as I know, Paypal don't have offices in Uganda, DRC, Kazakhstan, etc and they're still doing business with North Carolina, just not willing to set up an office there and force LGBT folks to live and work somewhere with such hostile laws in order to work for them.