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It isn't clear how much immediate day-to-day difference this would make to SpaceX. Company leadership moved to Texas some time ago. Production of Starlink user

It isn't clear how much immediate day-to-day difference this would make to SpaceX. Company leadership moved to Texas some time ago. Production of Starlink user terminals was already moving to Austin/Bastrop (with component production possibly migrating to other countries) and Hawthorne Raptor production was likely being migrated back to Boca. Hawthorne mostly hosted development support for legacy products like Falcon and Dragon with the expectation that these offices would close when these products are no longer being offered. Starship software development will probably eventually be migrated to Boca and other projects will likely follow. It probably makes sense for the business to move to a venue with a more favorable regulatory environment. The company has been party to multiple lawsuits related to sexual harassment, assault and workplace injury/death and the ability to try cases in a more friendly environment will make it easier to encourage employees to optimize productivity.

__warlord__ 2y ago
> The company has been party to multiple lawsuits related to sexual harassment, assault and workplace injury/death and the ability to try cases in a more friendly environment will make it easier to encourage employees to optimize productivity. Instead of fixing our culture, less move to a place where committing sexual harassment is "not that much of a problem" ... lol
acdha 2y ago
> The company has been party to multiple lawsuits related to sexual harassment, assault and workplace injury/death and the ability to try cases in a more friendly environment will make it easier to encourage employees to optimize productivity. Corporate PR speak keeps getting more and more bizarre. If they were optimizing for productivity, they’d get rid of the people who are abusing their fellow workers or creating unsafe conditions since all of those things lower productivity. Relocating their headquarters to shield abusers is saying that productivity below coddling those guys’ egos. Musk can afford better spin doctors.
threecheese 2y ago
How does > the ability to try [assault and workplace injury/death] cases in a more friendly environment (to the company) > make it easier to encourage employees to optimize productivity “Be more productive or we will fuck you up and get away with it” doesnt sound attractive to me.

__warlord__ 2y ago

> The company has been party to multiple lawsuits related to sexual harassment, assault and workplace injury/death and the ability to try cases in a more friendly environment will make it easier to encourage employees to optimize productivity. Instead of fixing our culture, less move to a place where committing sexual harassment is "not that much of a problem" ... lol

acdha 2y ago

> The company has been party to multiple lawsuits related to sexual harassment, assault and workplace injury/death and the ability to try cases in a more friendly environment will make it easier to encourage employees to optimize productivity. Corporate PR speak keeps getting more and more bizarre. If they were optimizing for productivity, they’d get rid of the people who are abusing their fellow workers or creating unsafe conditions since all of those things lower productivity. Relocating their headquarters to shield abusers is saying that productivity below coddling those guys’ egos. Musk can afford better spin doctors.

threecheese 2y ago

How does > the ability to try [assault and workplace injury/death] cases in a more friendly environment (to the company) > make it easier to encourage employees to optimize productivity “Be more productive or we will fuck you up and get away with it” doesnt sound attractive to me.