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I don't see how you can even hide something that big from your current employees even if you wanted to. I've been involved with two corporate moves. And the amount of planning involved is enormous.
Albeit I will say that folks can be somewhat oblivious to things. I work for a financial institution. And we recently moved one of our locations. This was communicated to our clients in all formats - email/newsletters/mailers, etc. We had signs and banners up for months. The day of the move, we had folks outside the old location telling people how to get to the new location just blocks away.
This was about 4 months ago. And to this day, we have clients walking into our old location - past all the 'we moved' banners in the parking lot, through the glass door with neon signs letting you know we moved, around the rope barrier in the vestibule with signs that says we moved, and try to open the inner door (which is locked) and wonder why they can't get in.
I've known people before who didn't know the business had closed until they showed up for work to find the building shut down (after wasting gas money, of course). The managers didn't even know until the day it closed. The higher ups didn't bother to tell the lower managers they were closing.
I also once had a flea market close I had a booth in and they neglected to tell me that they were closing. I had just a few hours to move an entire booth out of the building. I was the only one that hadn't been informed by management. I found out from another vendor who was moving out. All the other vendors had been told weeks prior of the closing date.
I guess I wouldn't be too surprised to learn of such a thing happening. I don't think I've ever heard of that happening before though.
I was brought in one time to evaluate to keep operating a money losing store, or determine what changes could be made to make it profitable. The manager went on a 2 week vacation while I was there. I found the location was the problem, and could not be saved and made profitable.
I closed the store. When he got back to go to work, he found the store empty and the doors padlocked close, and no job.
I've heard this story years ago where the workers were given no forewarning.
Doubting this is true on any level. Some people will believe anything they're told. I see no logical reason an employer would pack up and move and not tell their employees. Does not make sense at all.
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