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What percentage of Tesla employees will prefer living in Texas over California?
by pmoriarty 6y ago
What percentage of Tesla employees will prefer living in Texas over California?
- getpost 6y agoYeah, Musk might be able get away with this, since I expect many key employees will be attracted by much lower housing costs out of state. Texas has high real estate taxes, but not high enough to offset savings on house prices.
- cromwellian 6y agoYou just can’t move a whole company, lots of people have roots, family, kids have friends, school, etc I doubt more than 10% of people would just relocate on a dime. Studies show overall Americans are not willing to move where jobs are once they’ve settled. Much is made of a tiny percentage of people leaving. The vast majority won’t and will be forced to see another job if he were to close the CA offices which will be massively disruptive. I’m betting he won’t, that the CA offices won’t move, and the people who are writing the code that lands his rockets will remain. It’s too much of a risk to replace those people and break up teams.
- stale2002 6y agoTexas has a lot of people living there, with lots of different skill sets. I am sure that there are many people, already living in Texas, who would want to work for Tesla.
- foofoo4u 6y agoTo add to this, there are two active automotive manufacturing plants that exist in Texas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Motor_vehicle_assembly_plants_in_Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Motor_vehicle_assembl.... What this means is there is already a presence of skilled labor in this field that Tesla can pull from.