The process also needs integrity. I've seen a few of these proposals now. The good ones have a clear rationale for relocation: the Australian Federal Treasury,

The process also needs integrity. I've seen a few of these proposals now. The good ones have a clear rationale for relocation: the Australian Federal Treasury, for instance, is moving a sizeable chunk of their workforce from the capital (Canberra, population ~400,000) to Sydney (population ~5m). Why? Because the financial industry in Australia, and many regulators in the Treasury portfolio, are based in Sydney. Seems logical to do this if you agree that lower-level, person-person connections are valuable (I think they are). The bad ones have no clear rationale, and co-incidentally the relocation target happens to be a marginal electorate in some regional area...