Toyota moves from Ca to Tx: When are bluestates going to actively fight job poachers?

[whatthehey]

78. Sure - and if it's their choice to make then they can decide what's more important

Don't see anything wrong with that. Toyota should no more refuse to move to prevent that decision than they should choose to move in order to give DFW residents the same choice about whether they want to work for Toyota or not. If "roots", which to me seems to be often used as a synonym for "reluctance to change", are more important than continuing employment with your current employer, I certainly think people should have the right to choose to stay where those roots are.

But Toyota's roots are not in CA. Corporations certainly are not people and don't have such considerations at all. Locations with tradition, such as Detroit long was for the big 3, are more to do with supplier availability, logistics and skilled workforce availability than a concept of "roots". For every CA resident unwilling to leave their roots, a DFW resident or someone willing to change theirs now has a shot at that job. Since I have no bias either way, that's a zero sum game to me, and I suspect for Toyota too. I strongly suspect they have quite carefully estimated tribal knowledge loss potential and weighed that into SWOT discussions. Toyota it must be remembered though has one of the strongest indoctrination programs in the world. As long as they don't lose a critical mass of tribal knowledge, and future training costs are lower than future tax and regulatory savings, their decision is valid. Trading people emotionally tied to CA for those emotionally tied, or not, to TX, is nothing more than passing frictional costs.