When Girish Navani, chief executive and cofounder of eClinicalWorks, surveyed his employees several years ago about where the company should build its new headquarters, their response was clear.
“It was overwhelming, stay in Westborough,” Navani said.
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Yes. Low property costs. Ample parking. Proximity to major highways. Urban sprawl. All of the markings of a booming business environment.
Suburban companies will always be followers, looking to minimize costs over just about anything else. Those were the growth areas of the 80s and 90s. These days if you want a young, dynamic workforce that's willing to take risks, you pretty much have to locate in a city. Young people just aren't interested in spending an hour in traffic every day to get to work anymore.