AT&T Moving Cricket Subsidiary to Atlanta
Cricket Wireless is coming to Atlanta.
Officials with the AT&T subsidiary say the move from Alpharetta to a spot near the Lindbergh MARTA station should be complete within the next few months.
“We think it will be a great environment to serve customers from and to grow the company,” says Cricket president Jennifer Van Buskirk.
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Van Buskirk wouldn’t comment on job specifics, but the move is expected to bring hundreds of positions to the city.
This shift in workforce by AT&T comes as other companies are moving out of the suburbs and into Atlanta.
“They are going where the labor force is. The young, millennial people, who are tech-savvy…..that’s the kind of workforce they’re looking for. And that workforce doesn’t live in the suburbs, it lives in-town,” says Dr. Rajeev Dhawan, the director the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University.
Last year Coke announced it was relocating roughly2,000 of its tech workers from Cobb County to downtown Atlanta.
Other companies considering workforce moves from the suburbs to the city include NCR and WorldPay.
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