Sunday, February 14, 2010

Colorado sends its love to California firms

The San Francisco Chronicle reports on who's leaving the tax hell called California:
San Francisco's Charles Schwab & Co. is locating 500 high-tech jobs there, while Mountain View's Intuit Inc. opened a call center in Englewood, Colo., in August, prompted in part by the area's "deep talent pool" and its more attractive operating costs compared to Silicon Valley, an Intuit spokesman said at the time. A $6 billion kidney dialysis company, DaVita Inc., moved its corporate headquarters last year from El Segundo to a suburb of Denver, prompted by its "lower costs and desirability as a place to live," the company's CEO told the Denver Post.


We predict you'll be seeing more of this.