@mattblaze They were losing key employees who didn't want to go, as you'd expect.

@lauren @mattblaze Putting an office there more or less means they can't hire anyone trans or who has a trans member of their family, similar restriction on visiting vendors, and on top of that with the RTO push employees with a big tech spouse will be looking at sacrificing significant income when they get a local FL job. Seems like a lot of trouble with no payoff other than maybe better Cuban food.

@choong @lauren Absolutely. There are significant current and potential staff who just can’t safely live there, and plenty more who would be simply unwilling to do so. That’s reason enough, but I’m just saying even without the political factors, the move made little sense. Imagineering draws heavily on the creative and craft talent native to the LA area film industry, which just isn’t in FL to nearly the same degree.