[Vision2020] Why don't any top 100 companies have any Idaho site?

[Art Deco]

A mystery?

We have very favorable tax breaks for businesses, a lot of very beautiful country, and relatively cheap energy.

Partly and very generally:

We lack extensive, quality transportation infrastructure in a geographically spread out and topographically varied state, a workforce suitably educated for participation in many modern industries and businesses, and part of the workforce willing to relocate or undergo retraining in order to be more employable.

Parts of the workforce appear to mirror some of the attitudes found in some of the citizens:  rigid independence, stubbornness, and with unwillingness to come to grips with the complexities of modern life.

Note:  Partly and very generally prefacing the two paragraphs above.

W.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kenneth Marcy 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:59 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Why don't any top 100 companies have any Idaho site?


  A little data analysis on the latest Forbes list of 100 best companies at 
  which to work indicates those companies employ about one and a half million 
  employees, and they plan to hire about 43,000 employees this year. That's a 
  growth rate of about 2.86 percent.

  The list indicates those 100 companies have 303 work locations in 50 states.

  Idaho is one of fourteen states that have no work sites for those companies.

  Why is that the case? Why can't Idaho attract any business representation from 
  any top 100 company? What does this reflect about Idaho's characteristics?


  Ken

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