The whole "HQ2" festival was dubious from the start, especially in light of this announcement. Other similar companies - e.g. practically all FAANGS - just hav

The whole "HQ2" festival was dubious from the start, especially in light of this announcement. Other similar companies - e.g. practically all FAANGS - just have one large HQ, and several smaller offices in various locations to tap into local talent. How is Amazon exceptional such that it needs this special "HQ2" office? This never made much sense for them... Except as a big PR fanfare to drum up huge benefit packages from cities on their various long/short candidate lists. So now they cut the prospective office sizes in half. Will the benefit packages be cut in half? Probably not.