Coming on the heels of yesterday’s post about the growth and expansion of Garmin is last night’s news that Gary Forsee has stepped down (fired?) as CEO of Sprint. It seems that Sprint has been hemorrhaging customers and has lost it’s way concerning customer service, vision and execution.
This is potentially very good or very bad news for Kansas City’s economy, specifically Johnson County and it’s housing market.
Should a new CEO come in and embrace Sprint’s Kansas City roots, turn the company around and cause economic growth/expansion those middle management houses will once again be in short supply and high demand. But if some east coast guy comes in who thinks of Kansas City as a liability more than an asset and decides to move more and more operations towards Reston, VA, well, there could be big, big trouble.
This is development worth watching. I have quite a few clients that are Sprint employees. Sprint is the single largest employer around Kansas City and pays very well compared to many other tech companies here, from what I’m told.
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