1) "In 1969, Sears, Roebuck & Co. was the largest retailer in the world, with about 350,000 employees. Sears executives decided to consolidate the thousands of

1) "In 1969, Sears, Roebuck & Co. was the largest retailer in the world, with about 350,000 employees. Sears executives decided to consolidate the thousands of employees in offices distributed throughout the Chicago area into one building on the western edge of Chicago's Loop. " [1] 2) "... Parkinson’s Law of Buildings. This he defines as follows; ‘a perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse… Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress there is not time to plan the perfect headquarters. The time for that comes later, when all the important work has been done.’" [2] 3) "Amazon HQ2 will be Amazon’s second headquarters in North America. " [3] Now this is not the beginning. It is not even the end of the beginning. But it is, perhaps, the beginning of the end. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Tower [2] https://johannesdeberlaymont.com/2016/06/10/c-northcote-parkinsons-law-of-buildings/ https://johannesdeberlaymont.com/2016/06/10/c-northcote-park... [3] https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=17044620011 https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=17044620011