Employees have to choose relocation or severance. - Ginger Makela Riker

Any reason given? - Raoul Pop

Jeez, you got out just in time! - Mark Trapp

Consolidation. Someone decided the ROI wasn't there. Bummer. - Ginger Makela Riker

Ginger leaves, they figured why keep them open. :-) - Hutch Carpenter

yeah, i was bummed. I love the folks in the denver office including ginger - Dh'ennis Dömingö

lordy... move or leave... ouch. - edythe

Capitalism-it takes no prisoners... - Mark Forman

Still, those are better options than what one would get at most other companies. - Tsega Dinka

(FYI - I think the link is broken) - Jennie Lin

Never heard of any Dallas office, but isn't Denver just a tiny handful of people sitting half an hour's drive from the much much bigger Boulder and Thornton offices? I mean, closing that sounds more like a standard office move than a relocation... - к2פ

Are you sad you didn't hang around for the severance or happy you don't have to go through an office closing? - Clare Dibble

Or is there a distinction between the Denver and Boulder office? - Clare Dibble

Why not telecommute? - Gabe

Dang. I applied for a job in the Dallas data center earlier this year. Never heard a word. I guess I know why now. - Ha3rvey

ƃuɐʞ, right. It is a handful of people. But they're pulling sales positions entirely out of CO and Dallas, so people only have the option of moving to Chicago, NY or SF, where there are ad sales jobs. Not catastrophizing here. It's just curious to me that the company spends so much money building amazing offices, then mere months later, decides to shut them down. Clare, I'm happy with my timing :-) - Ginger Makela Riker

Clare, yeah, Boulder is a separate office. It's folks from the Sketch-Up acquisition and I think other mapping projects. - Ginger Makela Riker

These were strictly sales offices, right? No eng? - ⓞnor

No eng. - Ginger Makela Riker

Oh, I see... eek. Glad you got out, Ginger. :( - к2פ

Can I have the Wii from the office? - Tödd Nëmët via Alert Thingy

so there is no sacred cow in Google either... our modern corp slang for downsizing is "open sourcing" - wonder how they will translate it on sales/marketing ppl, since all previous head-slashing was majorly in engineering :) - A.T.