Comcast's Andrew Johnson says the company was looking to update its system of call centers and decided the three in California were too expensive to keep open, "There are lots of folks out there who recognize that there is overhead costs that business have to deal with here in California and we -certainly when we stacked that up against the other options that were available to us on the west coast- we made the decision.
The thousand employees can keep their jobs if they're willing to move. Portland, Seattle, and Denver's call centers will absorb them.
Comcast will still have 5500 employees in California to handle
service outages and other problems for their 2 million customers in
the state. According to a report in the Silicon Valley
Business Journal more than 250 companies moved jobs out of state
last year. That was a 26 percent increase over
2010.