has your job ever moved out of state
if you live in california the chances of that happening are twice as high as any other state
what is going on everyone welcome back the world according to briggs in the last couple of videos
we've focused on california and the problems that it faces every state has some problems
that's just life california has many positives probably more than any other state in the union
according to most people the problem is the insane amount of negatives the golden state has
been facing and will continue to face far overshadow all of its positives we've talked
about the loss in population celebrities that have left and now let's take a look at the businesses
leaving california or businesses that have already left california is always listed as one of the
worst states to have a business in the country overpopulated over taxed over regulated and the
high cost of living for employees are the reasons most often given for that ranking there are so
many other reasons like crime poverty politics and commute times that play into this this isn't new
in 2011 a poll by various business groups said 82 percent of the executives and owners said that if
they weren't already in the state they wouldn't consider starting up a new business here and 64
said the main reason they stayed in california was it was too tough to relocate move their
whole business to another state because of the type of business they had that was in 2011 in
2020 companies don't care how tough it is if they can move they're packing up and leaving
let's take a look at the 10 biggest corporate names that have given up on the golden state
number 10 core mark cormark is a food distributor that mainly supplies food to convenience stores
around the country so if at some point in your life you're on your way home from a
night out and you find yourself standing in front of a microwave that isn't your own
you've eaten some of their food and here's a piece of advice along that vein from my own
experience never have a 7-eleven burrito before a one-night stand hook-up or booty
call it's like a disaster in 2018 core mark president and ceo scott mcpherson
announced the fortune 500 company has had enough of california and finalized its plans to relocate
its corporate headquarters to west lake texas which is a suburb of the dallas-fort worth area
the company was headquartered in san francisco since forever they have distribution centers
all over the country but their headquarters and its 400 employees are now in the lone star state
number 9 abbott laboratories in 2016 abbott laboratories closed its redwood city california
vascular device manufacturing facility laying off about 150 people that's according to biospace.com
the temecula california facility near san diego has steadily dropped jobs since the early 2010s
at its peak it had 4 000 employees now i saw one report that it has around a thousand if i was in
charge of that one that would have been the first place to go temecula sucks it used to be nice in
the early 1980s these days it's just a crime infested hell hole that gets way too hot all
the time anyway they moved about 700 jobs to puerto rico and i read one report that said the
plan is to be out of california by the end of 2022 2023 something like that taking the rest of their
jobs to parts unknown number eight panasonic manufacturing corporation growing up in torrance
california more than a few of my friends parents and then eventually my friends
worked for panasonic they had manufacturing and offices in an industrial area near the torrance
airport not too far from the home i grew up in my first job outside of my parents restaurant
was across the street from this place at its peak the panasonic manufacturing facilities had about
a thousand employees both full-time and temp the office had a couple hundred and in the early 2000s
they moved a majority of their full-time jobs to illinois and the facility was finally shut down by
2016. they now have a thing called Panasonic avionics it's headquartered in lake forest
California currently but they have all their major business functions in Bothell Washington now the
Panasonic North American headquarters has been headquartered in Newark new jersey since 2013.
number seven Jamba juice. Jamba juice started off as a senior project at California polytechnic
university in San Luis Obispo or simply cal poly Jamba juice was founded on March 31 1990
when it opened the first store in san Luis Obispo it was incorporated in 1990 as the
juice club incorporated in 2016 Jamba juice announced it would be moving its corporate
headquarters from Emeryville which is not too far from like Oakland and San Francisco and all that
to Frisco texas indicating the high-cost living and high cost of conducting business
in California and the San Francisco bay area was just too much for the company and the employees
two years later Jamba just announced it would be acquired by Atlanta-based focus brands the
acquisition was completed on September 14 2018 and now i guess they're uh headquartered in Atlanta
number six lift an uber the ride-sharing services days may be numbered in California
one of the propositions on the ballot in the upcoming elections in California
is proposition 22. prop 22 would considered app-based drivers to be independent contractors
and not employees and this is something many of the drivers and the company prefer some drivers
want to be classified as employees and get all things like insurance and 401ks but the thing is
a lot of the drivers don't want that because they have other jobs that they get that stuff
this is extra money and they really like the flexibility i got a lyft ride last week while
i was in los angeles and talked to the driver about it he said he hates the idea doesn't want
to be an employee the main reason he does this is the flexibility he's the one that said he could
turn on the app and start working and turn it off when he wants to stop working he said if the law
passes he'll stop being a driver even if uber and lyft stay in california anyway if prop 22 doesn't
pass in november uber and lyft said they will shut down their app and leave the golden state
number five charles schwab charles schwab founded his company in san francisco in 1971 and
most recently had about 1 300 employees in the san francisco area alone that may not be a thing
anymore he started opening office and shedding jobs out to places like denver and austin texas
for a while and more recently dallas now he's been threatening to leave for years but usually that
was an arm-twisting tactic with a landlord every time the lease came up for renewal but regardless
of all that stuff he's been moving people to different cities for a very long time and it looks
like they're finally done with san francisco when asked he said the cost of doing business in san
francisco and all of california are so much higher than any other place in the country you have to
ask yourself is it worth it anymore number four pandora the music app pandora has been in oakland
since it was founded in the year 2000. Oakland may not be as expensive as the other side of the bay
with san Francisco and silicon valley but they're still pretty pricey and dangerous more dangerous
I should say san Francisco is not the most pleasant place in the world now Oakland's still
quite a bit more dangerous pandora for the time being still has their headquarters in Oakland but
moved the workforce to Atlanta starting in 2018. a press release said that the atlanta move would
be an expansion of pandora's workforce and said the move would provide a significant opportunity
to add instrumental talent in a region with lower costs than the company's headquarters in oakland
so it's just a cost cutting measure it's just too expensive for the employees i mean if you've got
employees living there you got to pay them more or they're going to be living in their car or down
by the train tracks so moving them to atlanta significant savings number three toyota this
move had been in the works for a couple years before anyone knew about it this is another
company from my hometown of torrance california which is just south of los angeles around 2008
you started hearing they might move and then a few years later it wasn't a rumor anymore toyota
was moving to texas some of my childhood and high school friends made the move with them including
my high school girlfriend she's still there sure low taxes relaxed regulatory environment and low
crime helped them decide to move but none of those factors topped the list of reasons toyota decided
to move to plano texas and take 3 000 jobs with them it was really about affordable housing which
california has next to none that's what started the conversation for toyota they had a focus
group with their employees overwhelmingly their people said we're willing to move we just need to
live the american dream and have a place where we can actually afford to buy a home and live happy
and that's what got the ball rolling for toyota here's torrance it's kind of big it's southern
california and here's the toyota facility it's pretty good size for a town as big as torrance
and mostly it remains empty to this day you could still see toyota on the roof right there
number two tesla tesla and elon musk were on our last list and how he said he was moving everything
out of california the tesla factory located in fremont california currently comprises of
5.3 million square feet of manufacturing and office space on 370 acres of land but will almost
double in size and create thousands of new jobs in the coming years following the city of fremont's
approval for his expansion plans now that's the way it's supposed to be going down it doesn't look
like that may be happening it might there's still a chance but things have kind of blown up lately
he's had issues with the state of california and has been in talks to leave the state entirely move
his whole operation out most recently he took issue with not being able to open his factory
during the pandemic now this is after things have kind of slowed down and things were opening
up around the country he felt he had made his factory or was making it safe enough to open
they weren't budging so he said he's just moving out of the state of california
in 2014 he decided to build a factory in nevada instead of california when
he was having other problems this one's still playing out so we'll see how things happen and
number one the raiders yeah the raiders the football team in case you think that isn't a
business that it's just a football team you're wrong it is a multi-million dollar company that
is a football team a marketing corporation and a merchandise licenser like all major sports teams
the oakland raiders have had problems with most of california at one time or another they were found
in 1960 and originally based in oakland california the raiders played their first regular season game
on september 11 1960 as a charter member of the american football league they moved the nfl when
the afl and nfl merged in 1970. they had moved to los angeles at one point because they couldn't get
a new stadium and eventually came back when la couldn't give him a new stadium amongst
other things the city of oakland which has far too many problems to list in a 10-minute video
again couldn't get a stadium deal done they had many failed attempts but a new stadium or a
renovated stadium was just too much for oakland they couldn't do it and they had far too many
hurdles to jump over from the state of california so they started looking elsewhere and eventually
landed in las vegas this is the first season in sin city basically oakland and the whole bay area
had far too many other problems where dishing out money for a new stadium was probably not the best
idea so and i think that has a lot to do with why the raiders left just the oakland coliseum
is just a horrible place to watch anything it's a horrible place to even drive by and look at
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