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Sustainable outdoors brand Patagonia has given 90 US employees a choice — tell the company you are willing to relocate by Friday or leave

Sustainable outdoors brand Patagonia has given 90 US employees a choice — tell the company you are willing to relocate by Friday or leave your job.

The employees all work in customer services, known at Patagonia as the customer experience (CX) team, and are able to work remotely to field calls and inquiries.

They were first alerted on Tuesday morning when they received a text and email.

"At 10 a.m. PST we will be hosting an important Town Hall Meeting," read the internal email, which was seen by Business Insider.

"We understand that some are scheduled to be off today, but please know that we will pay you for the day [8 hours] if you can make the time to attend."

Half an hour later, in a 15-minute town hall hosted by executives Amy Velligan and Bruce Old, staff were informed that the team would be moving to a new "hub" model.

CX employees must now live within 60 miles of one of seven "hubs" — Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Reno, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, or Pittsburgh.

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What these articles are not mentioning is the fact that the Leader of CX Operations was hired by Walmart! This is a very wrong step in cultural change for Patagonia. Everything went downhill when she was hired.

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Post ID: @1sde+1tfVcCPA

Keep in mind, most of the execs at all of these companies probably own expensive property near an office in those cities. If you could buy the exact same place elsewhere for less money and full remote becomes the norm, any price inflation from being near a city center could be drastically reduced. One of many incentives they have to try to force people into “hubs” that has nothing to do with the actual business.

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Post ID: @tns+1tfVcCPA

Pata - gone - ia another brand the libitards like to VS with.

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Post ID: @auz+1tfVcCPA

Every product they sell is petroleum based.

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Post ID: @ano+1tfVcCPA

At least they are doing it all at once rather than the cruel drip, drip, drip WF method of "we're going to let you go, we're just not going to tell you when and we reserve the right to keep changing our location strategy story."

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Post ID: @xau+1tfVcCPA

Shocking that a very liberal company is going down this path.

And seriously, Pittsburgh? Ha. How random

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Post ID: @pry+1tfVcCPA

McKinsey at it again

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Post ID: @taq+1tfVcCPA

Pretty Fing ironic for an outdoor equipment and clothing company to force employees, many of which probably live in rural areas because the cost of living and love of nature, to relocate to urban S holes because "reasons". I honestly used to be a capitalist absolutist, and in some ways I still am, but F these clowns executives right in their stupid Fing face. So many of them are absolutely repulsive, and we have a ton of these pieces of garbage here at WF.

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Post ID: @ogl+1tfVcCPA

CEO of Patagonia "gave away" his fortune by creating his own charitable foundation that he controls. Just like pretty much every other billionaire not named Warren Buffett.

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Post ID: @sgu+1tfVcCPA

Wow! Patagonia too?! Boooooo

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Post ID: @dep+1tfVcCPA

And of course, Patagonia will subsidize all relocation expenses for these employees, right?

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