alt Hacker NewsThere are tons of articles out there about mayors/council members/ etc pressuring execs to get butts in office seats for the past few years. I don’t know if that counts as data to you or not, but they are relatively easy to find in a google search.
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dehrmann • 10/12/2024
City governments have no leverage to pressure businesses with, though.
It’s the other way round many times. Companies get fat tax breaks to move into a particular town or city.
Those tax breaks are explicitly contingent on butts being physically in seats to add to the economy and tax revenue of that municipality.
Too few butts in seats triggers penalties or revoking of the tax breaks altogether.