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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
To me the whole point of a second 'headquarters' in a different city is that it is a 3hr time difference, if you didn't want that why would you bother setting up in a different city? the most common sense thing for the around 25th richest company in the world would be to have one office in Seattle, if you are planning a second headquarters not in Seattle it's because the west doesn't work for what they want that location to do.
People need to think of this beyond N America, 4 hours is not a big deal within the US but its 8 hours to Europe, an East Coast office allows workable teleconferencing to the EU throughout most of the day.
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In theory, I agree that it makes sense for them to want to be in the Eastern time zone. But, if this was actually one of the important criteria to them, wouldn't they have listed that with the other criteria? The fact that they didn't list this as important to them probably means that it isn't actually a big consideration.